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Volcanoes Quiz 1 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is VISCOSITY?
2. Which can travel at speeds greater than 100 km/hr and include hot gas, ash, and rock?
3. What are active volcanoes?
4. What part of the Philippines can we locate Mt. Binuluan?
5. Which text feature could the author add to help the reader understand the meaning of important words in the text?
6. How hot is a volcano?
7. Volcanic eruptions are caused by
8. Which type of volcano is Paricutin in Mexico?
9. Which list places the magma types in order of decreasing viscosity (most viscous listed first)?
10. A volcano that may erupt again at some time in the distant future is
11. What is a constructive force?
12. A composite volcano .....
13. Mount St. Helen's, which is the last volcano to erupt in the continental United States, is located in which state?
14. A volcano becomes extinct when
15. Is a substance formed by the chemical combination of oxygen and silicon atoms.
16. Which of the following is most likely to damage the largest area?
17. These volcanoes have slow, steady eruptions in which lava, flows out and builds up over a broad area.
18. Before lava reaches the surface, the molten material is called
19. Island arcs are curved chains of volcanic islands formed
20. Where is Mount St Helens is located in?
21. Which kind of volcano will probably never erupt again?
22. What do you do when a volcano is about to erupt?
23. Which type of magma has the lowest gas content?
24. What type of volcano is Mt. Fuji in Japan?
25. When magma squeezes between layers of rock, it forms a
26. Which is NOT a part of a Volcano
27. Which is not a physical property of magma from an explosive eruption?
28. Volcanic ash could damage these types of travel
29. Which feature is created on the exterior of a volcano when it erupts?
30. Mixture of rock, mineral and glass particles expelled from a volcano during a volcanic eruption.
31. What is the colour of the ash?
32. Mt. St Helens is a ..... and can have violet eruptions.
33. When magma hardens in a volcano's pipe, the result will eventually be a landform called a
34. There are two main types of volcanoes:shield and
35. Where is the largest abundance of US Volcanoes located?
36. Over time, as a volcano continues to erupt, it will get
37. What eruption was responsible for the Year Without a Summer in 1815?
38. The viscosity of magma depends on its temperature and
39. Composite volcanoes are sometimes called .....
40. Which of the following is NOT a term that scientists use to describe a volcano's stage of activity
41. Land forms that is usually flat and its easier to build infrastructures is called:
42. It refers to the eruptive and non-eruptive activities that take place in a volcano.
43. How can you classify a volcano that have no recorded of eruption but have evidence that erupted for thelast 10, 000 years?
44. The long tube in the ground that connects the magma chamber to Earth's surface is called the .....
45. How thick something is or the ability of a fluid or liquid to flow is its
46. Volcanoes most commonly are found by which plate boundary?
47. Which volcano is a wide, gently sloping mountain formed by thin layers or lava that pour out of a vent and harden on top of previous layers?
48. Where is the largest volcano?
49. What is the active volcano area around the Pacific Rim called?
50. What is the most abundant gas associated with volcanic activity?
51. Which of the following is not one of the 6 volcanic hazards we discussed?
52. Which statement describes convergent boundaries?
53. A volcano with a quiet eruption only.
54. A boundary on Earth's crust where two plates collide
55. Mafic magma is ..... in color.
56. When ..... builds up, an explosion happens.
57. How many active volcanoes are there in the Caribbean?
58. What is the landform that forms when rising magma, blocked by layers of rock, forces the layers of rock to bend upward?
59. Inside a volcano, magma collects in a pocket or room called a
60. Most of the lava on Earth's surface came from .....
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