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You Gotta Know These Volcanoes

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This type of volcano is more common and tends to have more dramatic profiles.

a)

stratovolcano

b)

shield volcano

2.

This stratovlcano is located in eastern Sicily. It is cited in Greek mythology as the location of Hephaestus's forges.

a)

Mount Erebus

b)

Mount Etna

c)

Kilauea

d)

Krakatoa

3.

This stratovolcano is the tallest active volcano in Antarctica and the southernmost active volcano in the world. In 1979 an Air New Zealand jet crashed into it's side during a whiteout killing over 250 people.

a)

Mount Etna

b)

Mount Erebus

c)

Mount Fuji

d)

Mount Rainier

4.

This stratovolcano is also Japan's tallest mountain. Because of it's beautiful shape, it is often depicted by artists, including the Japanese artist Hokusai who created a wood block series of it.

a)

Mount Erebus

b)

Mount Etna

c)

Mount Fuji

d)

Mount Pinatubo

5.

This shield volcano is the most active of the five volcanoes on the Big Island of Hawaii. It is also the location of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.

a)

Kilauea

b)

Krakatoa

c)

Mauna Loa

d)

Mount Etna

6.

This volcano, located in the Sunda Strait of Indonesia, is most known for it's massive 1883 eruption that is believed to have produced the loudest sound ever.

a)

Mauna Loa

b)

Mount Pinatubo

c)

Mount Vesuvius

d)

Krakatoa

7.

This shield volcano is the most massive above-sea volcano on Earth. It if located in Hawaii's Volcanoes National Park. When it erupted in 1942, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the US government gagged the press from reporting on the eruption.

a)

Mount Pinatubo

b)

Krakatoa

c)

Mauna Loa

d)

Kilauea

8.

This stratovolcano is located in the Philippines. After it's 1991 eruption, the global temperature briefly decreased by almost a full degree Fahrenheit due to the ejection of aerosols and sulfuric acid.

a)

Mount Pinatubo

b)

Mount Rainier

c)

Mount Saint Helens

d)

Mount Vesuvius

9.

This stratovolcano is the highest peak in the Cascades and is located in a National Park that shares its name.

a)

Mount Pinatubo

b)

Mount Rainier

c)

Mount Saint Helens

d)

Mount Etna

10.

This stratovolcano last erupted in May 1980, killing 57 people in the most devastating volcanic eruption in US history?

a)

Mount Rainier

b)

Mount Saint Helens

c)

Mount Vesuvius

d)

Mauna Loa

11.

What is the term for mudflows of pyroclastic material caused by volcanoes?

a)

aeta

b)

strata

c)

viscous lava

d)

lahars

12.

This stratovolcano is the only active volcano on mainland Europe. It's most notable eruption came in AD 79 when it buried the cities of Herculaneum, Stabiae, and Pompeii.

a)

Mount Pinatubo

b)

Krakatoa

c)

Mount Vesuvius

d)

Mount Erebus