A volcano is a place on the Earth's surface
(or any other planet's or moon's surface) where molten
____________, gases and pyroclastic debris erupt through the
earth's ___________. Volcanoes vary quite a bit in their
structure - some are ____________ in the earth's crust where
lava erupts, and some are domes, shields, or mountain-like structures
with a ____________(a circular depression) at the summit.
___________ is molten rock within the Earth's crust.
When magma ___________ through the earth's surface it is
called ____________.
The largest volcano on ____________ is Hawaii's Mauna Loa. Mauna Loa
is about 6 miles (10 km) tall from the sea floor to its
____________ (it rises about 4 km above sea level). It also
has the greatest volume of any volcano on Earth, 10,200 cubic miles
(42,500 cubic kilometers).
The largest ____________ in our Solar System is perhaps
Olympus Mons on the planet __________. This enormous volcano
is 17 ___________ (27 km) tall and over 320 miles (520 km)
across.
