EARTH SCIENCE - VOLCANO FEATURES

CONE - the most strinking part of the volcano

VENT - the opening through which an eruption takes place

MAGMA CHAMBER - the large underground pool of liquid rock found beneath the earth’s crust

CRATER - a basin-like depression over a vent at the summit of the cone

CALDERA - can be created when a volcano’s summit is blown off by exploding gases

LAVA - the rock/magma expelled from a volcano during eruption

DIKES - the barrier or obstacles in a volcano

SILLS - these are solidified lava flows

CONDULT - a channel or pipe conveying liquid materials such as magma

FLANK - side of a volcano

SUMMIT - the highest point or apex of a volcano

THROAT - the entrance of a volcano

ASH CLOUD - the expelled in the atmosphere

VOLCANIC BOMBS - chunks of lava blasted into the air

TEPHRA FALL - the fragmented material that consist punice, seorina, lithic material and crystals

LAHAR - these are flowing mixture or volcanic debris and water

PYROCLASTIC FLOW - fast moving currents