This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian Geography > Earth > Volcanoes – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Volcanoes Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Molten material that reaches the surface. A) Lava. B) Tsunami. C) Earthquake. D) Magma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lava. 2. Mount St. Helens is a volcano that erupted with great force in 1980. Which phrase best describes this eruption? A) Quiet eruption. B) High viscosity magma. C) Gentle lava flow. D) Magma low in silica. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) High viscosity magma. 3. Why do volcanoes form at convergent boundaries? A) Water lowers the melting point of the mantle rock. B) The temperature of the rock is increased. C) Pressure on the mantle rock is increased. D) Pressure is released making the melting point of the mantle rock lower. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Water lowers the melting point of the mantle rock. 4. Where two plates converge, one sinks below the other. Most land volcanoes occur near here. A) Subduction zone. B) Convection current. C) Boundary line. D) Fault. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subduction zone. 5. What is it called when magma erupts out of the top of the mountain and lava flows down the side? A) Earthquakes. B) Volcanic Eruptions. C) Weathering. D) Floods. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Volcanic Eruptions. 6. Mauna Loa erupted how many times since 1832? A) 42. B) 39. C) 57. D) 49. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 39. 7. Taal volcano erupted in the year 1965 due to contact of water and magma. How can this volcanic eruption be classified? A) Vulcanian. B) Phreatic. C) Phreatomagmatic. D) Strombolian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Phreatomagmatic. 8. What is the definition of dormant? A) Invisible. B) Extinct. C) Active. D) Sleeping. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sleeping. 9. This may result in the formation of caldera or volcano-tectonic depressions. A) Phreatic. B) Strombolian. C) Vulcanian. D) Plinian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plinian. 10. A volcano erupts quietly if its magma is which of the following A) Low in silica. B) Cool. C) High in silica. D) Solid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Low in silica. 11. The composition of magma determines its ..... A) Viscosity. B) Darkness. C) Color. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Viscosity. 12. This region contains 75% of planet's volcanoes: A) Ring of Fire. B) Iceland. C) South America. D) Bermuda Triangle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ring of Fire. 13. What kind of volcano is made of alternating layers of lava and tephra? (also called a composite volcano) A) Composing. B) Stratovolcano. C) Cinder. D) Shield. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stratovolcano. 14. Which of the following describes a volcano? A) Volcano is a cone shape. B) Volcano produces lava during volcanic eruption. C) Volcano is a mountain. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 15. What are places in the interior of plates where volcanoes occur? A) Effusive zones. B) Hot spots. C) National parks. D) Fault lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hot spots. 16. The higher the viscosity of a fluid, the ..... it flows. A) Faster. B) Slicker. C) Higher. D) Slower. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Slower. 17. How many kinds of eruptions do they have? A) 3. B) 4. C) 1. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2. 18. Geologists hypothesize that hot spots form above a rising current of hot mantle materials, called a A) Plate boundary. B) Volcanic ash. C) Mantle plume. D) Hot spot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mantle plume. 19. Most volcanoes are located ..... A) In the middle of the United States. B) At the edges of the tectonic plates. C) On Mars. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) At the edges of the tectonic plates. 20. What type of boundary would you likely find a stratovolcano? A) Hotspot. B) Convergent. C) Divergent. D) Transform. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Convergent. 21. Besides Earth, what are two other bodies in the solar system where volcanic eruptions have been observed? A) Io, a moon of Jupiter, and Triton, a moon of Neptune. B) Mars and Venus. C) Earth's moon and Venus. D) Saturn and Uranus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Io, a moon of Jupiter, and Triton, a moon of Neptune. 22. A sleeping volcano A) Dormant volcano. B) Extinct volcano. C) Composite volcano. D) Active volcano. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dormant volcano. 23. Some volcanoes in the Ring of Fire were formed near A) Hot spots. B) Normal faults. C) Subduction zones. D) Divergent boundaries. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subduction zones. 24. Large projectiles thrown through the air during an eruption are called A) Lava. B) Hot Spot. C) Volcanic bombs. D) Magma chamber. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Volcanic bombs. 25. What can be created by a volcano? A) A book. B) A tiger. C) An island. D) A person. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An island. 26. The loudest sound in recorded history occurred from ..... A) The eruption of the Indonesian Krakatoa volcano. B) The 1968 Great Alaskan Earthquake. C) The Fukushima tsunami. D) The Grateful Dead Wall of Sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The eruption of the Indonesian Krakatoa volcano. 27. Which natural processes are both constructive and destructive? A) Earthquakes and floods. B) Erosion and landslides. C) Floods, volcanic eruptions, landslides. D) Weathering and flooding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Floods, volcanic eruptions, landslides. 28. Which statement would the author of "The Strange Power of Volcanoes" MOST agree with? A) Volcano safety is important. B) Volcanoes are very scary. C) Volcanoes erupt too often. D) Volcanoes are very powerful. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Volcanoes are very powerful. 29. If geologists detect many small earthquakes in an area near a volcano, what can they infer about the volcano? A) It is extinct. B) It is probably about to erupt. C) It is a good source of geothermal energy. D) It is dormant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is probably about to erupt. 30. Which theory helped scientists understand how and where volcanoes erupt? A) Big Bang Theory. B) Theory of the Rock Cycle. C) Theory of Plate Tectonics. D) Theory of Relativity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theory of Plate Tectonics. 31. Which part of the volcano is considered the side of the volcano A) Flank. B) Vent. C) Crater. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flank. 32. This type of volcano, tend to be cone shaped and tall. A) Shield volcano. B) Composite volcano. C) Caldera volcano. D) Cinder cone volcano. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Composite volcano. 33. Which of the following is NOT an active volcano? A) Musuan. B) Mariveles. C) Makaturing. D) Mayon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mariveles. 34. Cinder Cone volcanoes are formed from ..... A) Nonexplosive eruptions. B) Both nonexplosive and explosive eruptions. C) Have never erupted. D) Moderately explosive eruptions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Moderately explosive eruptions. 35. What type of volcano is Kilauea, which is made from lava flows? A) Cinder Cone. B) Shield Volcano. C) Composite Volcano. D) Caldera. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shield Volcano. 36. Which paragraph best supports the diagram in the text? A) Paragraph 3. B) Paragraph 6. C) Paragraph 1. D) Paragraph 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paragraph 3. 37. Mayon Volcano is an example of? A) Composite cone volcanoes. B) Shield volcanoes. C) Strato volcanoes. D) Cinder cone volcanoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Composite cone volcanoes. 38. Magma that hardens in a volcano's pipe create a A) Batholith. B) Dike. C) Sill. D) Volcanic neck. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Volcanic neck. 39. A volcano that has not erupted in a very long time suddenly has a plume of steam coming from it. Which best describes this volcano? A) Was dormant and is now active. B) Was quiet and is now active. C) Was extinct and is now explosive. D) Was dormant and is now explosive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was dormant and is now active. 40. Which statement explains what happens as magma rises inside a volcano? A) The pressure of the gas will disappear. B) Gases will contract in the chamber. C) The magmatic pressure decreases. D) Magma moves to other chambers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The magmatic pressure decreases. 41. What is a destructive force? A) A natural process that destroys land. B) A natural process that creates land. C) A natural process where areas that are normally dry is covered in water. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A natural process that destroys land. 42. What is the smallest and most deadly pyroclastic? A) Lapilli. B) Lava Bomb. C) Lava Block. D) Ash. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ash. 43. What type of volcano is composed of layers of cinders and pyroclastics? A) Shield. B) Stratovolcano. C) Cinder Cone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cinder Cone. 44. Why does magma tend to rise to the surface? A) It contains very little silica. B) It is denser than the surrounding material. C) It has large amounts of silica. D) It is less dense than the surrounding material. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It is less dense than the surrounding material. 45. Which type of lava erupts from shield volcanoes? A) Andesitic. B) Basaltic. C) Granitic. D) Rhyolitic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Basaltic. 46. Which eruption was responsible for the "loudest sound ever heard? " A) Eldfell. B) Tambora. C) Vesuvius. D) Krakatoa. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Krakatoa. 47. Vocanoes are found ..... A) On land. B) Under water. C) On islands. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 48. Ring of Fire Volcanoes have ..... A) Blocky lava. B) Sea water trapped inside. C) Huge, violent eruptions. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 49. What is molten rock that has reached the Earth's surface? A) Aa. B) Pahoehoe. C) Magma. D) Lava. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lava. 50. What do we call molten hot liquid rock once it erupts to the Earth's surface? A) Cinder. B) Lava. C) Magma. D) Igneous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Magma. 51. A series of earthquakes are called an earthquake A) Event. B) Flume. C) Swarm. D) Explosion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Swarm. 52. As the temperature of lava increases, ..... A) It begins to harden. B) Its viscosity decreases. C) It can flow a much shorter distance. D) Its viscosity increases. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Its viscosity decreases. 53. Which of the following factors helps determine whether a volcanic eruption will be violent or relatively quiet? A) Amount of dissolved gases. B) Temperature of the magma. C) Amount of silica in the magma. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 54. Which word identifies one stage of volcanic activity? A) Quiet. B) Explosive. C) Dormant. D) Underground. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dormant. 55. The major ring of volcanoes that circles the Pacific Ocean is called thep A) Ocean ring. B) Ring of Pacific Fire. C) Volcanic belt of Pacific volcanoes. D) Ring of Fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ring of Fire. 56. Where are volcanoes most likely to form? A) On the moon. B) Along plate boundaries. C) Near the center of continents. D) Near water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Along plate boundaries. 57. Volcanoes are common along A) Convergent plate boundaries. B) Divergent plate boundaries. C) Transform plate boundaries. D) Two of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Two of the above. 58. When magma flows out of the volcano it is called A) Lava. B) Air. C) Egg shells. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lava. 59. Volcanoes that are made of basalt lava flows are called ..... A) Composite volcanoes. B) Cone volcanoes. C) Stratovolcanoes. D) Shield volcanoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shield volcanoes. 60. Where is the Ring of Fire located? A) Pacific Plate. B) Atlantic Plate. C) North American Plate. D) Japanese Plate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pacific Plate. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIndian Geography QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesVolcanoes Quiz 1Volcanoes Quiz 2Volcanoes Quiz 3Volcanoes Quiz 4Volcanoes Quiz 6Volcanoes Quiz 7Volcanoes Quiz 8Volcanoes Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books