VOLCANIC LANDFORMS OF HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK -- At a Glance

Lesson at a glance: Students will use slides, figures, and maps to learn the volcanic landforms in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

Key concepts: Hawaii Volcanoes National Park contains excellent examples of the volcanic landforms associated with shield volcanoes. These landforms include calderas, pit craters, rift zones, cinder cones, spatter cones, littoral cones, perched lava ponds, lava tubes, tumuli, fissures, and fault scarps.

Lesson Outcomes: The students will:

  1. recognize the common volcanic landforms of shield volcanoes. 
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