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Volcanoes Quiz 8 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is it called when sediment is moved by wind, water, ice, and gravity?
2. Volcanoes that do not have any historical record of any eruption but are considered as morphologically young.
3. Which is not a types of volcano:
4. What is an island?
5. A ..... Boundary occurs at a deep-ocean trench through subduction.
6. Which feature forms at a divergent boundary?
7. Conduction is the transfer of heat between substances with different temperatures. Heat moves from the cooler substance through direct contact. Which feature forms as a result of conduction between magma and water?
8. How will you classify volcanoes that have records of eruptions within the last 600 or 10, 000 years ago?
9. Approximately 70% of the world's composite volcanoes are located around the Pacific Ocean in a region called the .....
10. What genre is the story Volanoes?
11. An erupting volcano can cause .....
12. A dead volcano is called what?
13. How many types of volcanoes are there?
14. What is molten (melted) rocks found deep in the earth called?
15. If lava flowed at the same speed as a glass of milk, we would say it has a ..... viscosity.
16. What forms when hot water and steam are trapped underground in a narrow crack, get heated and erupt from the cracks?
17. What does active mean?
18. Which volcanic eruptions destroy property, death or injury to humans rarely occurs
19. These are formed by less viscous basaltic lava flows.
20. About 75 percent of the world's volcanoes are found
21. What is the topic of the paragraph on page 344 of "Volcanoes" ?
22. Which type of volcano has recently erupted or will soon erupt?
23. Eruption of Kavachi Volcano in the Solomon Islands in 2000 is an example of what type of volcanic eruption?
24. Molten rock outside the Earth's crust
25. Volcanoes further away from those close to a hotspot are .....
26. Which of the following is a participating state of CDEMA?
27. Which of the following forms from large amounts of fluid lava over an extensive area?
28. Which type of lava has a high viscosity, is felsic, silica rich and has explosive eruptions?
29. These are sometimes caused by the upward movement of magma before an eruption
30. The solid particles thrown up in the air during a volcanic eruption are known as .....
31. When ash, cinders, and bombs build up in a steep pile around a volcano's vent, the result is a
32. Where are most volcanoes located?
33. What percentage of Earth's volcanoes are found in the Ring of Fire?
34. Which type of volcano has steep angled sides, throws blobs of lava in the air that fall as cinders, and is built over a short period of time?
35. The nearest Composite volcano to Los Angeles is .....
36. Where can we locate Mt. St. Tomas?
37. What is inside a volcano?
38. Wide gentle-sloping mountain from lava pouring out of the vent that hardens on top of previous layers
39. I have not erupted in a long time but there is a possibility I will erupt again. What kind of volcano am I?
40. What main feature is created in a subduction zone when the plate that is subducted begins to melt?
41. A tall, cone shaped mountain in which layers of lava alternate with layers of ash and other volcanic materials.
42. ..... is the thickness of a liquid or its resistance to flow.
43. Volcanoes are classified as a ..... hazard
44. The weak point in the Earth's crust where hot magma rises and reaches the earth's surface is call the .....
45. Where do most volcanoes in the world occur?
46. What is liquid rock called within the Earth's surface?
47. A mass of rock formed when a large body of magma cools inside the crust is called a
48. An example of a Cinder Cone volcano is .....
49. A steep-sided volcano formed from layers of lava and ash.
50. Molten rocks on the surface of volcanoes are oozing out. Which volcanic material best describes this?
51. A plate boundary where the plates slide past each other in opposite directions
52. A secondary effect of volcanic activity
53. The expulsion of ash, cinders, bombs, and gasses during an explosive volcanic eruption.
54. A subduction zone is .....
55. What is the least explosive type of volcano?
56. A steep, cone-shaped hill or small mountain made of volcanic ash, cinder, and bombs piled up around a volcano's opening.
57. An opening in the Earth's crust through which molten rock, gases, and ash erupts is called a(n) .....
58. Why do volcanoes form at divergent boundaries
59. Who did they interview about the volcano eruption?
60. An ..... volcano is one that is erupting or has erupted recently.
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