Volcanoes Quiz

Alternating layers of hardened lava flows and pyroclastic material erupts violently to create this steep volcano.

• Cinder cone volcano

• Caldera

• Composite

• Shield volcano

Which type of volcano forms from cinders and the accumulation of debris forms a cone shape.

• Cinder cone volcano

• Caldera

• Shield volcano

• Stratovolcano

Where a volcano produces low viscosity, runny lava, it spreads far from the source and forms a volcano with gentle slopes

• Stratovolcano

• Caldera

• Cinder Cone

• Shield volcano

What is a hotspot volcano?

• A location on the Earth's surface where volcanic activity occurs due to a volcano.

• A location on the Earth's surface where volcanic activity occurs due to underground water sources.

• A location on the Earth's surface where volcanic activity occurs due to tectonic plate movement.

• A location on the Earth's surface where heat rises, creating magma that can lead to volcanic activity.

This is the name for the chain of volcanos around the edge of the Pacific Plate.

• Circle of Fire
• Ring of Lava
• Ring of Fire
• Circle of Magma

When an explosive eruption  forms a mixture of hot rock, ash, and gas, this material is called a...?

• Land slide
• Lava
• Eruption trail
• Pyroclastic flow

What is this diagram of a sudden draining of a magma chamber? Hint: Yellowstone is one of these.

• Lava Plateau
• Cinder Cone
• Caldera
• Shield Cone

A volcano that is unlikely to erupt again because it has not shown any signs of activity in thousands of years ____________?

• extinct
• dormant
• active
• caldera

Most volcanoes occur 

• at tectonic plate boundaries
• On the moon

• in Europe
• in Asia

Volcanoes that have erupted in the past expected to erupt again.

• Active

• Dormant

• Extiinct

• Earthquake volcano