This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian Geography > Earth > Volcanoes – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Volcanoes Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. ..... volcanoes are usually steep sided. They are formed from layers of ash and lava. A) Shield. B) Cone. C) Extinct. D) Dormant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cone. 2. A sleeping volcano is called what? A) Active. B) Dormant. C) Extinct. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dormant. 3. What is a determining factor in which type of eruption will occur? A) The climate around the volcano. B) The chemistry of the magma. C) The size of the mountain. D) The number of people living near the volcano. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The chemistry of the magma. 4. What are the most explosive types of volcanoes? A) Shield. B) Composite. C) Cinder Cone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Composite. 5. Which of the following factors associated with huge volcanic eruptions may cause the decrease in the Earth's average temperature for a few years? A) Light. B) Volcanic ash. C) Acid rain. D) Heat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Volcanic ash. 6. Lakes that form near volcanoes considered to be ..... A) Conduits. B) Vents. C) Craters. D) Calderas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Calderas. 7. Hawaii's Mauna Kea is an example of a ..... A) Shield volcano. B) Pahoehoe volcano. C) Cinder cone volcano. D) Composite volcano. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shield volcano. 8. What is it called when rocks are broken down into smaller pieces? A) Deposition. B) Weathering. C) Volcanic Eruptions. D) Erosion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Weathering. 9. Batu Tara Volcano in Indonesia in erupts in 1998 this volcanic eruption is an example of? A) Phreatic. B) Plinian. C) Pelean. D) Vulcanian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vulcanian. 10. Hot rock deep in the Earth expands and is forced out of the opening of a volcano. As the rock cools it may form which of the following? A) Mountains. B) Glaciers. C) Rivers. D) Sandstone arches. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mountains. 11. If we said that lava flowed at the same rate as a milkshake, we would say that it has what type of viscosity? A) High. B) No. C) Low. D) Hot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) High. 12. Divergent means to A) Pull apart. B) Come together. C) Slide past. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pull apart. 13. Magma is made up of ..... from the mantle mixed with hot gas. A) Molten rock. B) Hot water. C) Lava. D) Plasma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Molten rock. 14. A cinder cone volcano ..... A) Is built from layers of lava and volcanic ash. B) Consists primarily of cinders and volcanic rock. C) Composed almost entirely of thin lava. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consists primarily of cinders and volcanic rock. 15. Which of the following is NOT a type of volcano? A) Cinder Cone. B) Pahoehoe. C) Shield. D) Composite. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pahoehoe. 16. Lava has what type of properties? A) Runny. B) A solid. C) Soft. D) Yellow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Runny. 17. A volcano belt that rims the Pacific Ocean A) Belt of Fire. B) Earthquake of Fire. C) Ring of Fire. D) Hat of Fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ring of Fire. 18. A huge hole left behind when a volcano collapses is a ..... A) Sill. B) Vent. C) Crater. D) Caldera. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Caldera. 19. The pocket beneath a volcano where magma collects? A) Pipe. B) Magma chamber. C) Caldera. D) Vent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Magma chamber. 20. This type of volcano has MOSTLY NONEXPLOSIVE eruptions A) Composite. B) Cinder cone. C) Shield. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shield. 21. When is a volcano considered extinct? A) When it is cut off from its magma supply. B) When it is cut off from its lava supply. C) When it doesn't have lava flowing. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When it is cut off from its magma supply. 22. Energy derived from water that has been heated by magma underground is A) Nuclear energy. B) Geothermal energy. C) Hydroelectric energy. D) Solar energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geothermal energy. 23. Where would you probably see something steep? A) In the sky. B) In a field. C) In the ocean. D) In the mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In the mountains. 24. Shield volcanoes have ..... A) Gently sloping sides. B) Pyroclastic material. C) Clusters. D) High, wide, steep sides. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gently sloping sides. 25. The Hawaiian Island volcanoes were formed by a A) Hot spot. B) Crater. C) Meteor. D) Fault line. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hot spot. 26. Warning signs that a volcano is about to erupt include all of the following EXCEPT A) Earthquakes. B) A rise in temperature. C) Heavy rain. D) Ground bulges. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Heavy rain. 27. What kind of pyroclastic debris makes up small pebbles? A) Lapilli. B) Blocky lava. C) Ash. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lapilli. 28. When the top of a volcano caves in on itself it forms a ..... ? A) Volcanic neck. B) Lava lake. C) Caldera. D) Batholith. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Caldera. 29. When lava cools and hardens, it forms which type of rock? A) Igneous. B) The kid of rock depends on the type of volcano. C) Metamorphic. D) Sedimentary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Igneous. 30. What type of volcano is built almost entirely from ejected lava fragments? A) Pahoehoe volcano. B) Shield volcano. C) Cinder cone. D) Composite cone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cinder cone. 31. About how many volcanoes erupt each year? A) 20-30. B) 30-40. C) 50-60. D) 40-50. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 50-60. 32. Which statement about dormant volcanoes must be true? A) They have not erupted for a very long time. B) They will erupt within the next 12 months. C) They were formerly stratovolcanoes. D) They can never erupt again. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They have not erupted for a very long time. 33. Which of the following is a major challenge to volcano preparedness? A) Disaster kits are not useful in the event of an eruption. B) Flowing lava is impossible to outrun. C) Eruptions are unpredictable. D) Volcanoes are located far from inhabited areas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eruptions are unpredictable. 34. Which of the following helps to determine how easily magma flows? A) The size of the crater. B) The diameter of the pipe. C) The number of vents on the volcano. D) The amount of silica in the magma. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The amount of silica in the magma. 35. Which of the following is an active volcano in the Philippines? A) Mt. Santo Tomas. B) Mt. Urot. C) Mt. Binuluan. D) Mt. Patoc. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mt. Binuluan. 36. What does a volcano do? A) Shrink. B) Erupt. C) Laugh. D) Blow up. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Erupt. 37. A dead volcano, one that is unlikely to erupt again A) Shield volcano. B) Extinct volcano. C) Caldera. D) Dormant volcano. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Extinct volcano. 38. This is the most common type of volcano A) Composite. B) Cinder cone. C) Shield. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Composite. 39. How long can the finest ash particles from a volcanic eruption remain in the atmosphere? A) Between hours and days. B) Between days and weeks. C) Between weeks and months. D) Between months and years. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Between weeks and months. 40. Which type of volcano if found in the Hawaiian Islands with thick flowing, slow moving lava? This is the most common type of volcano on earth. A) Composite. B) Cinder Cone. C) Shield. D) Lava Dome. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shield. 41. Where is the largest Supervolcano in North America? A) Beneath the Catskills Mountains. B) Beneath Yellowstone. C) In the Appalachian Mountians. D) Beneath Mt St Helens. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beneath Yellowstone. 42. Which is NOT a type of volcano? A) Shield Volcano. B) Pahoehoe Volcano. C) Composite Volcano. D) Cinder Cone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pahoehoe Volcano. 43. Occurs when magma is ejected to the vent: A) Earthquake. B) Eruption. C) Lava flow. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eruption. 44. This type of eruption has an explosive ejection with water interaction. A) Surtseyan eruption. B) Plinian eruption. C) Phreatic eruption. D) Hawaiian eruption. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Surtseyan eruption. 45. Which factor does not affect the explosivness of an eruption? A) Size of the volcano. B) Type of magma. C) Amount of gasses. D) Amount of water vapor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Size of the volcano. 46. Opening in the side of a volcano through which volcanic materials erupts. A) Magma Chamber. B) Pipe. C) Side vent. D) Central vent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Side vent. 47. A fluid's thickness and resistance to flow is called ..... A) Thickness. B) Viscosity. C) Magma. D) Consistency. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Viscosity. 48. What level of a house do you go to if there is a volcano? A) Main level. B) Upstairs. C) Basement. D) Doesn't madder. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Basement. 49. Which type of volcano has a steep cone-shaped hill or mountain made with only pyroclastic flow? A) Shield volcano. B) Cinder cone volcano. C) Composite volcano. D) Earthquake. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cinder cone volcano. 50. Volcanoes that have not erupted for at least 10, 000 years are described as ..... A) Extinct. B) Sleeping. C) Dormant. D) Active. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extinct. 51. What are the mountains that form as blocks of rock move up or down along normal faults. A) Fault-Block Mountains. B) Folded Mountains. C) Shield Mountains. D) Mole-hill Mountain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fault-Block Mountains. 52. A hot, fast moving type of lava that hardens to form smooth, rope-like coils! A) Magma. B) Pahoehoe. C) Aa. D) Silica. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pahoehoe. 53. Where is the area of the Ring of Fire located? A) Atlantic Ocean. B) Arctic Sea. C) Indian Ocean. D) Pacific Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pacific Ocean. 54. Which of the following is NOT a product of volcanic eruption? A) Lava flow. B) Volcanic Gas. C) Magma. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Magma. 55. What do scientist study to determine the possibility of a future volcanic eruption? A) How old it is. B) History of its past eruptions. C) How tall it is. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) History of its past eruptions. 56. What does not come out of volcanos? A) Chocolate. B) Ash. C) Rock. D) Lava. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chocolate. 57. Which of the following gases is not typically found in volcanic activity? A) Water vapor. B) Sulfur. C) Carbon dioxide. D) Argon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Argon. 58. Magma that forces across rock layers hardens into a A) Sill. B) Volcanic neck. C) Batholith. D) Dike. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dike. 59. What is a hazard from an explosive eruption? A) Pyroclastic flow. B) Ash cloud. C) Volcanic bombs. D) All of these options. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these options. 60. A shield volcano ..... A) Is built from layers of lava and volcanic ash. B) Consists primarily of cinders and volcanic rock. C) Composed almost entirely of thin lava. D) None of above. 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