Volcanoes Quiz 27 (10 MCQs)

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1. What is the principal ingredient to all types of magma?

Correct Answer: C) Silica.

2. The loudest sound ever recorded was .....

Correct Answer: B) Mt. Krakatoa erupting.

3. What are volatiles?

Correct Answer: A) Gases trapped in lava.

4. Pahoehoe is

Correct Answer: B) Fast moving lava.

5. A volcano that has erupted in the last 2000 years but not recently is known as .....

Correct Answer: A) Dormant.

6. At what volcanic setting would you find rhyolitic magma?

Correct Answer: C) Continental hotspot.

7. Melted rock inside the Earth is called

Correct Answer: A) Magma.

8. When groundwater heated by magma rises to the surface and collects in a natural pond, it is called a

Correct Answer: A) Hot spring.

9. What does solid mean?

Correct Answer: B) Hard.

10. Smaller volcanoes that typically throw ash into the air during eruption

Correct Answer: A) Cinder cone.