1. Briefly explain a hotspot.
-a volcano that forms not on a plate boundary but mid plate where the earth's crust is thin and the magma burst through the crust creating a shield volcano over time, usually because the plate is moving, it creates a series of hotspots as the mantle plume is dragged along
2. Define pyroclastic flow.
-is a dense, fast-moving flow of solidified lava pieces, volcanic ash, and hot gases.
-A fast-moving, ground-hugging current of hot gases, ash, and volcanic rock fragments that flows down the slopes of a volcano during an explosive eruption.
3. Explain what kind of volcano has super explosive eruptions and at what plate boundary we might find these volcanos.
-Composite/Strato volcano. Found along Ring of Fire, or convegent/subducting plate boundaries
4. What type of rocks might be associated with this type of volcano?
-Igneous rocks
-pumice, rhyolite
5. Provide one positive and one negative idea around how volcanoes affect people's lives.
Positive: fertile soil, geothermal energy, tourism, mining
Negative: destruction of buildings, infrastructure, farming, death
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