How much do you know about volcanoes?

How much do you know about volcanoes?

5th - 8th Grade

9 Qs

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How much do you know about volcanoes?

How much do you know about volcanoes?

Assessment

Quiz

English, Geography

5th - 8th Grade

Hard

Created by

Öznur Kılıç

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9 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

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A volcano is a mountain or hill, where molten rock erupts through the surface of the earth.

True

False

2.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

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A volcano has a vent that allows lava, ash, and gas to escape from a magma chamber below the surface of the Earth.

True

False

3.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

The word 'volcano' comes from the island 'Vulcano' which is a volcanic island in Italy.Vulcano, in turn, gets its name from the Roman God of fire - Vulcan. According to mythology,Vulcan lived in a volcano, Romans believed that if Vulcan was made angry, the volcano would erupt.

True

False

4.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

Lava glows white to red hot as it flows. The temperature of lava ranges between 700 °C and 1200 °C.

True

False

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

There are around __________ active volcanoes in the word.

151

1,510

15,100

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

There are around _______ volcanoes under the oceans, that we know of.

80

800

8,000

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Mauna Kea in Hawaii is the biggest volcano on Earth and is taller than Mount Everest. It is ________ meters tall but, because most of it is underwater, it seems much smaller.

102

1,020

10,200

8.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Even when the side of the volcano is steep, lava does not flow faster than ___________ kilometres per hour. This means that a person could comfortably outpace lava flow over a short distance.

3

30

300

9.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The largest volcano eruption in human history was at _______ in 1815. It ranked a 7 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index, the second highest rating on the index.

Mount Etna

Mount Tambora

Mount Vesuvius