Volcanoes Word Search
Volcanoes are openings in Earth's crust where molten rock, gas and ash reach the surface. The same rock is called magma underground and lava once it comes out.
Volcanoes word search (Easy)
Find these 10 words
10 words, across and down only
- ash
- cone
- crater
- dome
- erupt
- island
- lava
- magma
- smoke
- vent
Volcanoes word search (Medium)
Find these 15 words
15 words, adds diagonals
- ash
- basalt
- caldera
- cone
- crater
- dome
- erupt
- eruption
- island
- lava
- magma
- molten
- pumice
- smoke
- vent
Volcanoes word search (Hard)
Find these 20 words
20 words, any direction, backwards too
- ash
- basalt
- caldera
- cone
- crater
- dome
- dormant
- erupt
- eruption
- extinct
- fissure
- geyser
- island
- lava
- magma
- molten
- plume
- pumice
- smoke
- vent
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Words in the Volcanoes word search
Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.
- lava
- Molten rock flowing on the surface after an eruption
- ash
- Fine gritty particles blown out during an eruption
- crater
- Bowl-shaped hollow at the top of a volcano
- smoke
- Common word for the gas and ash cloud above a vent
- magma
- Melted rock still stored below the ground
- erupt
- To burst out, sending lava or ash into the air
- island
- Land built up by undersea volcanoes, like Hawaii
- dome
- Rounded mound of thick lava piled over a vent
- cone
- Steep hill built from layers of ash and lava
- vent
- Opening that lets magma and gas escape
- molten
- Melted by heat into a thick flowing liquid
- eruption
- The event of material blasting out of a volcano
- pumice
- Light foamy volcanic rock full of gas bubbles
- basalt
- Dark rock formed from cooled runny lava
- caldera
- Wide basin left when a volcano's top collapses
- geyser
- Hot spring that shoots steam and water upward
- fissure
- Long crack in the ground that lava pours from
- plume
- Tall column of ash and gas rising from a vent
- dormant
- Quiet for now but still able to erupt again
- extinct
- No longer expected to erupt ever again
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