Volcano Review 1

This volcano is most likely which type of volcano?

• Felsic
• Composite
• Shield
• Cinder cone

Once magma reaches the earth's surface it is called.....

• Silica
• Rock
• lava

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Stratovolcanoes can be described as...

• Very large with gentle slopes and eruptions of low viscosity magma
• Large with steep slopes and violent eruptions of very viscous magma
• Small and clustered in groups with steep slopes and firey eruptions that occur only once

Cinder cones can be described as...

• Very large with gentle slopes and eruptions of low viscosity magma
• Large with steep slopes and violent eruptions of very viscous magma
• Small and clustered in groups with steep slopes and firey eruptions that occur only once

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What is pyroclastic material?

• Dust, ash and other material that comes out of a volcano.
• A type of magma that is in a volcano.
• A type of volcano.

What is a dormant volcano?

• molten rock

• the center of a volcano

• will never erupt again

• a volcano that is sleeping, but could erupt agian

Approximately 70% of the world's composite volcanoes are located around the Pacific Ocean in a region called the ____________. 

• Ring of Fire
• Volcano Ring
• Nucleus of Volcanoes
• Center of Fire

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If a volcano can not erupt any more it is called

• active

• inactive

• dormant

• extinct

The Hawaiian Islands were formed

• above a divergent fault

• above a convergent fault

• above a strike-slip fault

• above a hotspot in the middle of a plate

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What type of volcano is this? It has been created with layers of both lava and pyroclastic materials. 

• Shield
• Cinder cone
• Composite

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