TYPES OF VOLCANOES

CINDER CONES
A BOWL-SHAPED CRATER AT THE
SUMMIT AND RARELY RISE MORE THAN
400 METERS.

VOLCANIC DOME

SMALL,BULBOUS MASSES OF LAVA TOO

VISCOUS TO FLOR ANY GREAT
DISTANCE

STRATOVOLCANOES
NARROW BASE, FAIRLY STEEPS SLAPES
AND EASILY REACH GREAT HEIGHTS.

SHIELD VOLCANOES
BUILD UP SLOWLY BY THE ACCREATION
OF THOUSAND OF HIGHLY FLUID LAVA
FLOW THAT SPREAD WIDELY OVER
GREAT DISTANCE. THIN,GENTLY
DIPPING SHEETS,
 CLASSIFICATIONS OF VOLCANO
ACTIVE VOLCANO
A volcano is considered active if it is
erupting or is projected to erupt in
the near future. There are around
500 active volcanoes on Earth, not
including volcanoes submerged in
the oceans. Every year, around 50 to
70 active volcanoes erupt.
EXTINCT VOLCANO
A considered dead and are not
expected to ever erupt again. Kohala,
the oldest volcano on the Big Island of
Hawaii, has not erupted in 60,000
years and is not expected to ever
become active again.
DORMANT VOLCANO
a volcano would then be one that
hasn't erupted in the past 10,000
years, but which is expected to erupt
again. The most dangerous as people
are complacent living within their
vicinity and are generally unprepared
when an eruption does come.
ERUPTION VOLCANO
An active volcano erupts,
distinguished as either explosive or
quiet. an explosive happened
because of a formation of gases
under viscous flow of magma. this
kind of eruption is often violent and
rapid.
 TYPES OF VOLCANOES
A volcano is a vent on the Earth’s surface. Gases and
molten rocks seep from a chamber underneath it.

COMPOSITE VOLCANOES
large
steep side
crater formed from
successive eruptions
Examples:
of lava, ash, and other Mount Fuji in Japan
volcanic materials Mount Mayon in the
Philippines

experience different
broad base types of eruptions

SHIELD VOLCANOES
flat top

formed by thin lava

that spreads out and
EXAMPLES:
builds layer by layer Cerro Azul in
Ecuador
have non-explosive Mauna Kea in the
eruptions United States
very wide base

steep sides CINDER CONES

formed from the
accumulation of pebble-
sized or larger cinders Examples:
and layers of ash Monte Nuovo in
Italy
Mount Elephant in
small and rarely have short eruptions Australia
reach 300 m high but lack the massive
lava streams