- 1. What percent of the earth is covered by the continents?
A) 29%
B) 21%
C) 3%
D) 12%
- 2. What is a fissure in the earth's surface called where magma can be expelled?
A) magma
B) conduit
C) volcano
D) vent
- 3. What is a funnel shaped pit called near the top of a volcano?
A) fissure
B) lava flow
C) crater
D) rift zone
- 4. What is it called when a crater forms around a collapsed volcano vent?
A) caldera
B) parasitic vent
C) cinder zone
D) magma chamber
- 5. Yellowstone National Park is one of these.
A) rift zone
B) hot spot
C) magma chamber
D) subduction zone
- 6. A volcano made from pyroclastic material, with steep slopes, is called a _____.
A) cinder cone volcano
B) ring of fire
C) composite volcano
D) shield volcano
- 7. A volcano built by layers of lava, with gently sloping sides, is called a _____.
A) shield volcano
B) composite volcano
C) cinder cone volcano
D) hot spot
- 8. A volcano marked by explosive eruptions with a wide base and steep slopes, is called a _____.
A) shield volcano
B) caldera
C) composite volcano
D) cinder cone volcano
- 9. What two factors increase as you go deeper into the earth?
A) pressure and magnetic polarity
B) heat and water temperature
C) heat and pressure
D) magma and lava
- 10. What is a passage through which magma flows in a volcano called?
A) drain vent
B) hallway
C) conduit
D) dike
- 11. What sort of cloud can form in the air after some volcanic eruptions called?
A) lava cloud
B) ash cloud
C) thunderstorm
D) volcanic bomb cloud
- 12. Before lava reaches the surface, the molten material is called _____.
A) magma
B) basalt
C) rock
D) volcanic ash
- 13. Volcanoes belts form along _____.
A) earth's plate boundaries
B) all mountain ranges
C) islands
D) areas of elliptical fault lines
- 14. The formation of the Hawaiian Islands is an example of a _____.
A) hot spots
B) continental drift
C) Ring of Fire
D) diverging plate boundaries
- 15. The volcano that may erupt again at some time in the future is called _____.
A) dormant
B) explosive
C) active
D) extinct
- 16. What causes small earthquakes that occur around a volcano before it erupts?
A) upward movement of magma
B) plate tectonics
C) volcanic bombs
D) steam from boiling water
- 17. Magma that squeezes into cracks between rock layers and then hardens is called a _____.
A) vent
B) caldera
C) sill
D) batholith
- 18. A very large, intrusive, rock formation is called a _____.
A) batholith
B) mountain
C) sill
D) dike
- 19. Rocks that form when magma cools underground are called _____.
A) sedimentary
B) extrusive
C) mudstone
D) intrusive
- 20. Volcano only refers to the erupting magma and the lava flows it creates.
A) false
B) true
- 21. The smallest and most common type of volcano is the _____.
A) composite
B) shield
C) cinder cone
D) stratovolcano
- 22. A stratovolcano and a composite volcano are the same type of volcano.
A) false
B) true
- 23. A ground hugging avalanche of hot ash, pumice, rock fragments, and volcanic gas that rushes down the side of a volcano is called a _____.
A) ash cloud
B) lava flood
C) parasitic event
D) pyroclastic flow
- 24. A lahar is the same thing as a volcanic mud flow.
A) false
B) true
- 25. Pyroclastic fall refers to all but one of the following rocks. Which one does not belong on this list?
A) bombs
B) gneiss
C) tuff
D) ash
- 26. The most common gas released by magma is called _____.
A) carbon dioxide
B) hydrochloric acid
C) sulfur dioxide
D) water
- 27. One thing that geologists monitor to predict volcanic eruptions is earthquakes.
A) false
B) true
- 28. One thing that geologists monitor to predict volcanic eruptions is the transpiration of water.
A) true
B) false
- 29. One of the following is NOT a volcanic rock. Which one does not belong on this list?
A) pumice
B) scoria
C) obsidian
D) laccolith
- 30. Old Faithful In Yellowstone National Park is an example of a _____.
A) extrusion
B) geyser
C) hot spring
D) mineral spray
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