Share Science 6: Chap5: l3: Volcanoes: part 1
Save to Folder
Where are most of Earth's volcanoes located?
Plate boundary
A string of volcanoes at plate boundaries around the Pacific Ocean
Ring of Fire
Volcanoes often erupt at places where one plate .................... the other
sinks under
The diving plate melts in the heat of the ..............
mantle
The melted rock rises within the crust, forming a ............................. that is a hot pool of ma
hot spot
The hot rock sometimes erupts through openings in Earth's surface as a(n) ................
volcano
Magma that reaches Earth's surface is
lava
When magma hardens inside Earth's crust, it can form vertical
dikes
When magma hardens inside Earth's crust, it can form horizontal ..............
sills
Magma pushed into a thick sill can form a(n) ..............
laccolith
