Free volcano Worksheets for teaching and learning all about volcanoes

These volcano worksheets are designed from the outset to appeal to those wishing to learn about volcanoes and tectonic processes. In full colour with student-friendly design layout, they aim to help make learning about volcanoes fun and interesting. From volcano word searches to blank volcano diagrams to label and volcano glossary lists, you should find something useful and effective here.

Using longitude and latitude

to locate volcanoes.

In this activity, we look at locating famous world volcanoes on a world map using their latitude and longitude co-ordinates. 18 famous volcanoes are listed and the map is large to allow lots of space to locate the volcanoes. We recommend using a pencil for the first few volcanoes so that you can easily correct mistakes. Also printing it in A3 makes the activity easier.

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'Inside our Earth' diagram to label

This activity is aimed at learning about the inside of our Earth and on using secondary sources to find information. Through searching on the internet, looking in books and magazines and using textbooks in school, can you find interesting facts about the four layers of the Earth?

'Inside our Earth' display work

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Volcano diagram to label

This volcano diagram has ten different parts to be labelled and they are listed at the bottom of the worksheet. Then you need to write definitions for each word. You can use a dictionary, your textbook or this website to help you with the definitions.

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Make a volcano model

Why not make a model of a volcano. This volcano worksheet sets the task of making a volcano model to the pupils and has some examples of volcano models on it with some information to help you get started.

Plate boundaries - drawing a labelled diagram

drawing and labelling plate boundary diagrams worksheet

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In this activity, you are asked to make a labelled diagram of a plate boundary. There is then space procided for writing a short paragraph to explain what is occuring in the plate boundary.

Volcano eruption worksheets

observe infer predict with photos of volcanic eruptions

Here we look at pictures of volcano eruptions and work out what we can observe in the photos, what we can infer from the photos and what we can predict from the photos. There are different pictures for different pupils to work independently on and share afterwards.

Volcano Glossary

There is a lot of special words to learn when studying about the Geography topic of Volcanoes and so having a quick glance at this glossary is going to help you with

remembering and learning what these new words mean. Why not ask a friend to test you on the meanings of these words to see if you know what they mean. There is also a blank version if you want to write your own definitions.

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volcanic words | volcano vocabulary | volcano worksheet

volcano words | volcano vocabulary | volcano worksheet

Volcano unscramble

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In this volcano activity, the names of famous volcanoes have had their names scrambled and you have to reaarange the letters to spell the names of famous volcanoes.

Volcano

crossword

Here we test the understanding of different volcano words by seeing if we can complete this volcano crossword.

Volcano

word searches

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Test your ability to spell different volcano vocabulary by seeing if you can find the volcanic words in these word searches. The first looks at volcanic words and the second looks at famous volcanoes.