Volcanoes

What types of landscapes are featured near or with volcanoes?

• Uplifts, Erosion, and Weathering
• Hot Spots and Flood Basalts
• Vents, Craters, and Calderas
• Batholiths, Stocks and Sills

What is letter D in the picture?

• Crater
• Vent
• Conduit
• Tephra

Magma that reaches the surface is called:

• Vent
• Hot spot
• Lava
• Cinders

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The belt of volcanoes around the rim of the Pacific Ocean is called:

• Island arc
• Ring of Fire
• Lava plateau
• Hawaii

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Shield volcanoes have:

• gently sloping sides
• a steep cone shape
• moderately sized sides
• long cracks along plate boundaries

Magma's resistance to flow, or how thick it is, is called:

• silica
• viscosity
• hot spot
• caldera

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The Hawaiian islands are made from this type of volcano.

• Composite
• Cinder Cone
• Shield
• Big

The name of a volcano that erupted in Washington State in 1980.

• Mt. Fuji
• Old Faithful
• Mt. St. Helens
• Mt. Pinatubo

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Magma rises because it is...

• more dense than surrounding rock
• less dense than surrounding rock

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This common type of volcano is made up of alternating layers of ash and lava.

• Shield volcano
• Composite / Stratovolcano
• Cinder cone
• Fissure volcano