Volcanoes

What type of volcano is made of lava fragments that have been ejected from a volcanic vent?

• Caldera
• Cinder Cone
• Composite Volcano
• 00000000000000000000000Shield Volcano

What type of volcano has steep slopes made of alternating layers of ash and silica rich lava?

• Caldera
• Cinder Cone
• Composite Volcano
• Shield Volcano

Where are most volcanoes found?

• Southern Hemisphere
• Ring of Fire
• Mid-Atlantic Ridge
• Hot Spots

What do you call a large crater formed by the collapse of a volcano?

• Caldera
• Cinder Cone
• Composite Volcano
• Shield Volcano

Where do volcanoes come from?

• Places where plates move apart
• Places where plates are moving together
• Hot Spots
• All of these options

The long tube in the ground that connects the magma chamber to Earth's surface is called the

• vent
• side vent
• pipe
• crater

Tall, cone-shaped mountains in which layers of lava alternate with layers of ash are called

• shield volcanoes
• cinder cone volcanoes
• composite volcanoes
• lava plateaus

Before lava reaches the surface it is called

• rock
• magma
• volcanic ash
• liquid fire

If geologists detect many small earthquakes in the area near a volcano, what can they infer about the volcano?

• It is dormant
• It is probably about to erupt
• It is extinct
• It is a good source of geothermal energy

When ash, cinders, and bombs build up in a steep pile around a volcano's vent, the result is a 

• cinder cone volcano
• shield volcano
• composite volcano
• dormant volcano