Volcano Vocabulary Quiz

What is an active volcano?

• A volcano that is erupting or likely to erupt

• A volcano that is not likely to erupt

• A type of rock

• A scientist who studies volcanoes.

Basalt

• a type of rock formed when thin, fast-moving lava cools and is usually very dark in color

• A kind of salt

• A person who studies volcanoes

• An active volcano

erupt

• When it rains

• When lava quickly comes out of a volcano

• When a volcano is extinct

• When a map is drawn.

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An extinct volcano

• is a volcano that is not likely to erupt in the future.

• A volcano that is likely to erupt in the future

• a dinosaur

• is a volcano that is not likely to form in the future.

What is lava?

• A) A type of rock

• B) Liquid rock that flows or explodes from a volcano

• C) A drawing of a place

• D) A scientist who studies volcanoes.

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A map

• a drawing of a place that shows where things are

• a guess about what will happen in the future

• A thing that repeats

• a mountain that has erupting lava

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A pattern

• is something that happens again and again in a way that can be predicted

• a drawing of where things are

• Something that can be a random guess

• a drawing

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predict

• to guess what will happen based on things you know

• randomly guess

• a drawing of where things are

• what happens before a volcano erupts

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The Ring of Fire

• a group of active volcanoes that forms a circle shape around the Atlantic Ocean.

• a group of extinct volcanoes that forms a circle shape around the Atlantic Ocean

• a group of extinct volcanoes that forms a circle shape around the Pacific Ocean

• a group of active volcanoes that forms a circle shape around the Pacific Ocean

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volcano

• is a high area of land with an opening where water flows or explodes out from

• is a high area of land with an opening where lava flows or explodes out from

• a ring around the Pacific Ocean

• A hole in the ground