Post on 13-Jan-2015
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Volcanoes
I can determine the meaning of and use
key vocabulary words correctly.
Billowy
Thin, hot, quick moving lava called pahoeloe forms a smooth, billowy
surface
Billowy (adj)- rising in a great wave
Cinders
CollideAfter a volcanic eruption, cinders cover the
ground around the blast zone.
Cinders (n) – charred bits of rock; ashes.
Crater
Funnel Cloud• A crater can be found at the top of a volcano after an eruption. It can look like a large bowl shaped hole.
Funnel Cloud
• Crater (n) – a bowl-shaped depression
Crust
Jagged• When the Earth’s crust cracks, often cinders and ash will be released.
Jagged• Crust (n)- the solid outer layer of the Earth.
Eruption
Lightning• The eruption rocked the ground and
covered the town with debris.
Lightning• Eruption (n)- a volcanic explosion or large
flow of lava
Lava
Prairies
• Lava slowly oozed out of the crack in the Earth’s crust.
Prairies
• Lava (n)- hot melted rock that flows from a volcano.
Magma
Rotate• Magma pushes up through the Earth’s
crust, and bursts into the world as lava.
Magma (n)- hot melted rock underneath the Earth’s surface.
Molten
Severe• The molten rock exploded from the crater
raining balls of fire down upon the forest.
Molten (adj)- made liquid by heat.
Summit
Sizzling• The summit of Mt. St. Helen’s was blown
off by a powerful eruption in 1980.
Summit (n) the top of a mountain
Weathered
Tornadoes• The wind, rain and ocean weathered the rocks into pock marked lumps.
Weathered (v)- changed because of being exposed to the weather.
Vocabulary for Volcanoes by Seymour Simon