This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian Geography > Earth > Volcanoes – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Volcanoes Quiz 9 (39 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. One major belt of volcanoes that surrounds the Pacific Ocean A) Ring of Fire. B) Ring of Asia. C) Ring o' earthquakes. D) Ring a ding ding. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ring of Fire. 2. An area where magma melts through the crust in the middle of a plate is called a A) Island arc. B) Geyser. C) Hot spot. D) Pipe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hot spot. 3. Which of the following is the first event when there is a formation of a volcano? A) Magma rises through cracks in the Earth's crust. B) Lava from the eruption cools to form new crust. C) Pressure builds up inside the Earth. D) Magma explodes to the surface. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Magma rises through cracks in the Earth's crust. 4. Which of the following is an opening through which molten rock and gas leave a volcano A) Crater. B) Vent. C) Pipe. D) Magma chamber. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vent. 5. Which volcano is a wide, gently sloping mountains made of layers of lava and is formed by quiet eruptions? A) Shield. B) Stratovolcano. C) Composite. D) Cinder-Cone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shield. 6. If lots of lava flows out in one spot on the surface of the Earth it forms a mountain and is called A) Magma. B) A ring. C) An ocean. D) A volcano. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A volcano. 7. When groundwater heated by a nearby body of magma rises to the surface and collects in a natural pool, it is called a ..... A) Geothermal activity. B) Hot spring. C) Geyser. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hot spring. 8. The simplest type of volcano is ..... A) Cinder cone volcano. B) Shield volcano. C) Caldera volcano. D) Composite volcano. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cinder cone volcano. 9. Where do we find volcanoes? A) Convergent boundaries. B) Divergent boundaries. C) With in plates. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 10. What volcanoes are described as having a wide base? A) Calderas. B) Cinder Cones. C) Composite Volcanoes. D) Shield Volcanoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shield Volcanoes. 11. Aa lava flows ..... A) In explosive bombs. B) In jagged chunks. C) In ropy texture. D) In small bb shaped chunks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In jagged chunks. 12. Which type of volcano is currently resting, but could erupt sometime in the future? A) Active. B) Dormant. C) Extinct. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dormant. 13. Energy from water or steam that has been heated by magma A) Kinetic energy. B) Potential energy. C) Thermal energy. D) Geothermal energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Geothermal energy. 14. Yellowstone Park is made up of ..... A) Craters. B) Calderas. C) Active volcanoes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Calderas. 15. Most volcanoes occur A) Transform boundary. B) Oceanic/oceanic convergent. C) Oceanic/continental divergent. D) Oceanic/continental convergent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oceanic/continental convergent. 16. When a volcano has not erupted for a long time but may erupt again, it is called: A) Active. B) Sleeping. C) Dormant. D) Extinct. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dormant. 17. The calmest of the eruption types. A) Surtseyan. B) Vulcanian. C) Hawaiian. D) Strombolian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hawaiian. 18. Fast-moving clouds of gas, ash, and other tephra are what? A) Pyroclastic flows. B) Calderas. C) Volcanic blocks. D) Volcanic bombs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pyroclastic flows. 19. Convergent means to A) Pull apart. B) Come together. C) Slide past. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Come together. 20. Which type of volcano is associated with, runny lava, and effusive eruptions. A) Shield. B) Composite. C) Cinder cone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shield. 21. Kilauea in Hawaii is a ..... and creates islands. A) Stratovolcano. B) Cinder Cone volcano. C) Shield Volcano. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shield Volcano. 22. A cone shaped volcano is A) A composite volcano. B) Ice cream volcano. C) Dormant volcano. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A composite volcano. 23. What creates the pressure within the volcano to make it erupt? A) Lava flow. B) Dissolved gases trapped in the magma. C) Gravity in the lithosphere. D) Shape of the volcano. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dissolved gases trapped in the magma. 24. Why do so many people live near volcanoes? A) Mineral rich soil. B) Geothermal Energy. C) Tourism. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 25. Why does magma rise? A) It is less dense than the rock around it. B) It is more dense than the rock around it. C) It is the same density as the rock around it. D) It is a liquid, and the rock is a solid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is less dense than the rock around it. 26. The car-sized material being shot out of a volcano are called what? A) Volcanic cinders. B) Volcanic ash. C) Lapilli. D) Volcanic bombs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Volcanic bombs. 27. There are several pieces of crust called these A) Crust. B) Volcanoes. C) Plates. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plates. 28. How can volcanic ash help the environment? A) Animals can eat the minerals in the ash. B) The wind carries ash. C) It can be recyled. D) Mineral in the ash can help plants grow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mineral in the ash can help plants grow. 29. Of America's volcanoes are found in this state ..... A) Oklahoma. B) California. C) Alaska. D) Washington. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alaska. 30. What type of volcano has the most explosive eruptions? A) Shield. B) Cinder Cone. C) Stratovolcano. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stratovolcano. 31. What is the principal ingredient to all types of magma? A) Water. B) Magnesium. C) Silica. D) Iron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Silica. 32. The loudest sound ever recorded was ..... A) Mt. Krakatoa erupting. B) Mt. Kilauea. C) A mouse whispering in the forest. D) Mt. Vesuvius erupting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mt. Krakatoa erupting. 33. What are volatiles? A) Gases trapped in lava. B) Rocks that are thrown from a volcano. C) Mud flows caused by a volcanoes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gases trapped in lava. 34. A volcano that has erupted in the last 2000 years but not recently is known as ..... A) Angry. B) Active. C) Extinct. D) Dormant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dormant. 35. At what volcanic setting would you find rhyolitic magma? A) Divergent. B) Continental hotspot. C) Convergent subduction. D) Oceanic hotspot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Continental hotspot. 36. Melted rock inside the Earth is called A) Fire. B) Magma. C) Surface. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Magma. 37. When groundwater heated by magma rises to the surface and collects in a natural pond, it is called a A) Geyser. B) Pyroclastic flows. C) Hot spring. D) Vent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hot spring. 38. What does solid mean? A) Soft. B) Wet. C) Rough. D) Hard. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hard. 39. Smaller volcanoes that typically throw ash into the air during eruption A) Fissure. B) Cinder cone. C) Shield. D) Composite. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cinder cone. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesIndian Geography QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesVolcanoes Quiz 1Volcanoes Quiz 2Volcanoes Quiz 3Volcanoes Quiz 4Volcanoes Quiz 5Volcanoes Quiz 6Volcanoes Quiz 7Volcanoes Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books