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WorksheetsMountains and Volcanoes
Total questions: 39
Worksheet time: 20mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What are the mountains that form as blocks of rock move up or down along normal faults.
a)
Folded Mountains
b)
Fault-Block Mountains
c)
Shield Mountains
d)
Mole-hill Mountain
2.
What do earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain building have in common?
a)
They occur suddenly.
b)
They are measured by seismographs.
c)
They result from plate motion.
d)
They cause major disasters.
3.
Folded mountains form at which type of plate boundary?
a)
transform
b)
divergent
c)
subduction
d)
convergent
4.
A collision between two pieces of continental crust at a converging boundary produces a
a)
mid-ocean ridge
b)
deep ocean trench
c)
volcanic mountain range
d)
folded mountain range
5.
Which of these is NOT a type of volcano?
a)
Shield
b)
Super
c)
Composite
d)
Cinder
6.
Earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely found in which locations?
a)
at plate boundaries
b)
in oceans
c)
in the middle of continents
d)
in the middle of plates
7.
Where are most volcanoes located?
a)
Atlantic Ocean
b)
Africa
c)
Japan
d)
Ring of Fire
8.
What is liquid rock called within the Earth's surface?
a)
core
b)
lava
c)
magma
d)
volcanic ash
9.
What type of volcano is built almost entirely from ejected lava fragments?
a)
cinder cone
b)
composite cone
c)
shield volcano
d)
pahoehoe volcano
10.
What is liquid rock that spills on to the Earth's surface?
a)
core
b)
lava
c)
magma
d)
volcano
11.
What are fast moving clouds of gas, ash, and rock bombs that are products from an explosive eruption?
a)
ash fall
b)
effusive debris
c)
magma
d)
pyroclastic flows
12.
What famous volcano exploded in 1980 in Washington state?
a)
Kilaauea
b)
Krakatoa
c)
Mt. Ranier
d)
Mt. St. Helens
13.
What are places in the interior of plates where volcanoes occur?
a)
effusive zones
b)
fault lines
c)
hot spots
d)
national parks
14.
A shield volcano is the tallest and most explosive volcano.
a)
True
b)
False
15.
What is a hot spot?
a)
An area in the interior of a plate where hot magma escapes Earth's crust.
b)
An area where you can get wireless internet.
c)
A place on your skin that burns.
d)
A popular place to hang out.
16.
What is another name for tephra?
a)
lava
b)
magma
c)
teflon material
d)
pyroclastic material
17.
A cinder cone erupts tephra or pyroclastics.
a)
False
b)
True
18.
What kind of volcano is made of alternating layers of lava and tephra? (also called a composite volcano)
a)
composing
b)
stratovolcano
c)
cinder
d)
shield
19.
What is a dent or depression called on a volcano?
a)
side vent
b)
bump
c)
dent
d)
crater
20.
A low silica volcano makes what type of eruption?
a)
quiet eruption
b)
explosive eruption
21.
A high silica volcano makes what type of an eruption?
a)
quiet eruption
b)
explosive eruption
22.
The car-sized material being shot out of a volcano are called what?
a)
volcanic ash
b)
volcanic cinders
c)
volcanic bombs
d)
lapilli
23.
What type of volcano is composed of layers of pyroclastics and lava flows?
a)
Stratovolcano
b)
Cinder Cone Volcano
c)
Shield Volcano
24.
What type of volcano is composed of layers of cinders and pyroclastics?
a)
Shield
b)
Stratovolcano
c)
Cinder Cone
25.
What main feature is created in a subduction zone when the plate that is subducted begins to melt?
a)
Mountains
b)
Volcanoes
c)
Cracks
26.
What type of boundary would you likely find a stratovolcano?
a)
Divergent
b)
Convergent
c)
Transform
d)
Hotspot
27.
What type of volcano has the most explosive eruptions?
a)
Shield
b)
Cinder Cone
c)
Stratovolcano
28.
What type of volcano is Mount St. Helens?
a)
Cinder cone volcano
b)
Shield volcano
c)
Stratovolcano
d)
It is not a volcano
29.
What type of volcano is this..
a)
Shield
b)
Cinder Cone
c)
Composite or Stratovolcano
30.
What type of volcano is this...
a)
Shield
b)
Cinder Cone
c)
Composite or Stratovolcano
31.
What type of volcano is this..
a)
Shield
b)
Cinder Cone
c)
Composite or Stratovolcano
32.
Which volcano is a wide, gently sloping mountain formed by thin layers or lava that pour out of a vent and harden on top of previous layers?
a)
cinder cone
b)
composite or stratovolcano
c)
shield
d)
dome mountain
33.
What forms when hot water and steam are trapped underground in a narrow crack, get heated and erupt from the cracks?
a)
hot bath
b)
geyser
c)
lava plateau
d)
volcano
34.
Volcanoes can be found...
a)
on land
b)
under water
c)
on islands
d)
all of the above
35.
A dense mud flow that results when snow and ice melts during an eruption and combines with volcanic ash and debris is a(n)
a)
Pyroclastic flow
b)
Slumping
c)
Lahar
d)
Dirt Current
36.
Mt. Hood is part of the Cascade Range in the northwestern part of the United States. Which one of the following most likely caused Mt. Hood to form?
a)
One tectonic plate sliding under another
b)
A plate flowing over a hot spot
c)
One plate moving northward, and one plate moving southwesterly
d)
A meteorite hit the earth
37.
This city was destroyed in 79 A.D. by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
a)
Rome
b)
Munich
c)
Pompeii
d)
Naples
38.
The Hawaiian Islands are made up of mostly ____ volcanoes.
a)
shield
b)
composite
c)
cinder cone
d)
magma
39.
Oh baby, there ain't no ____________ high enough, / Ain't no _____________low enough, / Ain't no __________ wide enough / To keep me from getting to you babe…
a)
tower, gutter, river
b)
volcano, valley, stream
c)
mountain, valley, river
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