VOLCANOES TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. What is a Volcano?

   • magma

2. The Deadliest Eruptions

3. Where Do Volcanoes Form and Occur?

   • Magma

   • Lava

   • The Ring of Fire

4. Volcanoes and Plate Tectonics

   • Subduction Zones

   • Divergent Plate Boundaries

5. Classifying Volcanoes

   • How Volcanoes Erupt

     • Active

     • Intermittent

     • Dorman

     • Extinct

   • The Way They Erupt

     • Cinder-Cone Volcanoes

     • Shield Volcanoes

     • Composite-Cone Volcanoes

   • Venn Diagram Comparing and Contrasting Types of Volcanoes

6. Surtsey

7. Mount Vesuvius

8. Mount Pinatubo

   • Island Arcs

   • Seismometer

9. An Island in the Making

   • Hot Spots

   • Caldera

10. Great Rift Valley of Africa

    • Rifting

11. Earth's Active Volcanoes

12. Volcanoes - vocabulary - cloze activity

13. Experiments

14. Chapter Vocabulary List

15. Vocabulary Test - fill in the blanks

16. Vocabulary Test - matching

17. Assessment - T or F

18. Assessment - multiple choice

© Ellen Gabor, 2005

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