This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Indian Geography > Earth > Volcanoes – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Volcanoes Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is VISCOSITY? A) The color of a lava. B) A harmful gas from volcanoes. C) The amount of pressure needed to move lava. D) Lava's resistance to flow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lava's resistance to flow. 2. Which can travel at speeds greater than 100 km/hr and include hot gas, ash, and rock? A) Pyroclastic flow. B) Mudflows. C) Ash fall. D) Lava flows. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pyroclastic flow. 3. What are active volcanoes? A) Volcanoes that will erupt Again. B) Volcanoes that will never erupt. C) Volcanoes that can erupt again but wont. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Volcanoes that will erupt Again. 4. What part of the Philippines can we locate Mt. Binuluan? A) Kalinga. B) Apayao. C) Mt.Province. D) Benguet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kalinga. 5. Which text feature could the author add to help the reader understand the meaning of important words in the text? A) Bold words. B) Table of contents. C) Glossary. D) Timeline. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Glossary. 6. How hot is a volcano? A) It is not hot it is cold. B) 55 degrees. C) Boiling 212 degrees. D) 2000 degrees. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2000 degrees. 7. Volcanic eruptions are caused by A) Gravity. B) Pressure. C) Explosions. D) Earth's rotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pressure. 8. Which type of volcano is Paricutin in Mexico? A) Caldera. B) Cinder Cone. C) Composite Volcano. D) Shield Volcano. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cinder Cone. 9. Which list places the magma types in order of decreasing viscosity (most viscous listed first)? A) Basaltic, andesitic, rhyolitic. B) Rhyolitic, andesitic, basaltic. C) Andesitic, basaltic, rhyolitic. D) Basaltic, rhyolitic, andesitic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyolitic, andesitic, basaltic. 10. A volcano that may erupt again at some time in the distant future is A) Active. B) Dormant. C) Explosive. D) Extinct. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dormant. 11. What is a constructive force? A) A natural process that builds up land. B) A natural process that destroys land. C) A natural process that breaks up rocks and sediment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A natural process that builds up land. 12. A composite 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: A) Is built from layers of lava and volcanic ash. 13. Mount St. Helen's, which is the last volcano to erupt in the continental United States, is located in which state? A) Oregon. B) Wyoming. C) Washington. D) Hawaii. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Washington. 14. A volcano becomes extinct when A) It hasn't erupted in a few hundred years. B) Its magma chamber dries up. C) It only emits ash and smoke. D) Its crater becomes filled with water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Its magma chamber dries up. 15. Is a substance formed by the chemical combination of oxygen and silicon atoms. A) Silica. B) Silica Oxide. C) Silica Acid. D) Magma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Silica. 16. Which of the following is most likely to damage the largest area? A) Fissure eruption. B) An eruption from a cinder cone. C) An eruption that forms a caldera. D) Lava flows from a shield volcano. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An eruption that forms a caldera. 17. These volcanoes have slow, steady eruptions in which lava, flows out and builds up over a broad area. A) Lava plateau volcano. B) Cinder cone volcano. C) Composite volcano. D) Shield volcano. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shield volcano. 18. Before lava reaches the surface, the molten material is called A) Rock. B) Liquid fire. C) Volcanic ash. D) Magma. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Magma. 19. Island arcs are curved chains of volcanic islands formed A) When 2 oceanic plates converge. B) When oceanic plates diverge. C) When an oceanic & continental plate converge. D) At a transform boundary between an oceanic & continental plate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When 2 oceanic plates converge. 20. Where is Mount St Helens is located in? A) United States of America. B) Malaysia. C) Italy. D) Philippines. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) United States of America. Next →Related QuizzesIndian Geography QuizzesVolcanoes Quiz 2Volcanoes Quiz 3Volcanoes Quiz 4Volcanoes Quiz 5Volcanoes Quiz 6Volcanoes Quiz 7Volcanoes Quiz 8Volcanoes Quiz 9Volcanoes Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books