Volcano Quiz Review

Match the following

• Crater

• a hill or mountain that forms over a crack in Earth's crust from deep underground

• Hotspot

• melted rock in Earth's mantle

• Volcano

• Where volcanoes can sometimes form over very hot regions deep within the mantle

• Magma

• a bowl shaped opening at the top of a volcano

• Lava

• red hot melted rock that has erupted above Earth's crust from deep underground

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Organize these options into the beneficial (good) and dangerous categories.

Groups:

(a) How a volcano can be beneficial

,

(b) How a volcano is dangerous

• destroys land

• brings minerals to the Earth's surface

• can cause injury or death

• can cause earthquakes

• can create new land

• can change weather

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Two examples of cone-shaped volcanoes are Mount Vesuvius in ​ (a)   and Mount ​ (b)   in ​ (c)   .

• Italy
• Fuji
• Japan
• Spain
• Everest

Match the following kinds of volcanoes

• Dormant

• Considered to be sleeping

• Active

• Has erupted in the near past

• Extinct

• Not expected to erupt again

Volcanoes form mostly away from the boundaries of plates.

• True

• False

The largest active volcano in Mauna Loa on the island of Hawaii.

• True

• False

The volcanically active Ring of Fire is on the Atlantic plate.

• True

• False

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Label the parts of the volcano

a

b

c

d

e

Cone

Lava

Vent

Crater

Magma