Earthquakes and Volcanoes

A useful earthquake prediction will include the quake's

• type
• magnitude
• intensity
• magnitude and intensity

What type of faulting would be most likely to occur along transform faults?

• normal faulting
• reverse faulting
• strike-slip faulting
• all of these

A caldera is created by

• a set of fluid lava flows evacuating a magma chamber.
• the earthquakes that accompany a large volcanic eruption.
• a set of ash flows and lava flows building up a flat topped volcano.
• the collapse of a volcano into its magma chamber.

The Hawaiian islands are found at a(n)

• divergent boundary
• hot spot
• convergent boundary
• transform boundary

What is created when water is heated beneath the Earth’s surface and erupts to the surface through a narrow passageway?

• lava plateau
• lava dune
• geyser
• hot spring

A volcano that could erupt, but hasn't recently is

• dead
• active
• dormant
• extinct

The opening in the top of a composite volcano is a

• hole
• crater
• fissure
• vent

Each volcanic eruption is unique in its

• style of eruption.
• type of volcanic cone that forms.
• composition of volcanic rocks that form.
• all of these

The higher the viscosity of a magma, the higher its content of

• iron
• nickel
• silica
• gases

The oldest volcanoes in a hotspot chain

• are furthest from the hotspot.
• may be below sea level.
• may be surrounded by coral reefs.
• all of these.