1. Eye of the
Storm
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2. Billowy

3. Thin, hot, quick moving lava called
pahoeloe forms a smooth, billowy
surface

4. Billowy (adj)- rising in a great wave

5. Cinders

6. Collide
After a volcanic eruption, cinders cover the
ground around the blast zone.

7. Cinders (n) – charred
bits of rock; ashes.

8. Crater

9. 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.

10. Funnel Cloud
• Crater (n) – a bowl-shaped depression

11. Crust

12. • When the Earth’s crust cracks, often
Jagged
cinders and ash will be released.

13. Jagged
• Crust (n)- the solid outer layer of the
Earth.

14. Eruption

15. Lightning
• The eruption rocked the ground and
covered the town with debris.

16. Lightning
• Eruption (n)- a volcanic explosion or large
flow of lava

17. Lava

18. Prairies
• Lava slowly
oozed out of the
crack in the
Earth’s crust.

19. Prairies
• Lava (n)- hot
melted rock
that flows
from a
volcano.

20. Magma

21. Rotate
• Magma pushes up through the Earth’s
crust, and bursts into the world as lava.

22. Magma (n)- hot melted rock
underneath the Earth’s surface.

23. Molten

24. Severe
• The molten rock exploded from the crater
raining balls of fire down upon the forest.

25. Molten (adj)- made liquid by
heat.

26. Summit

27. Sizzling
• The summit of Mt. St. Helen’s was blown
off by a powerful eruption in 1980.

28. Summit (n) the top of a
mountain

29. Weathered

30. Tornadoes
• The wind, rain and ocean weathered the
rocks into pock marked lumps.

31. Weathered (v)- changed because
of being exposed to the weather.

32. Vocabulary for Volcanoes by
Seymour Simon