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