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Hot Spot Quiz

Total questions: 8

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a Hot spot?

a)

Is an area of Earth that sits over a mantle plume.

b)

A place where people can access internet.

c)

A large mountain that creates major landslides.

d)

A spot where a basketball player is good at shooting.

2.

What is the thing that rises to create volcanoes?

a)

Lava

b)

Seamount

c)

Magma

d)

Water

3.

Where does the magma start?

a)

Inner Core

b)

Mantle

c)

Outer Core

d)

Crust

4.

Which one lists the correct order in which magma rises?

a)

1) Hot spots start in the mantle with hot magma rising up.

2)The magma turns into lava then erupts

3) The magma reaches a seamount

4) The magma hits the surface and creates a volcano

b)

1)The magma turns into lava then erupts

2) The magma reaches a seamount

3) The magma hits the surface and creates a volcano

4) Hot spots start in the mantle with hot magma rising up

c)

1) The magma reaches a seamount

2) Hot spots start in the mantle with hot magma rising up

3)The magma turns into lava then erupts

4) The magma hits the surface and creates a volcano

d)

1) Hot spots start in the mantle with hot magma rising up.

2) The magma reaches a seamount

3) The magma hits the surface and creates a volcano

4) The magma turns into lava then erupts

5.

Which is an example of an extinct volcano?

a)

Sakurajima

b)

Taal Volcanoes

c)

Mauna Loa

d)

Yellowstone

6.

What does magma and lava create? (2 answers)

a)

Black sand beaches

b)

Crust

c)

Volcanoes

d)

Water

7.

What are seamounts?

a)

Volcanoes

b)

Underwater Mountains

c)

Valleys

d)

Islands

8.

What is the crust?

a)

The outer layer of a planet

b)

The outer layer of a pizza

c)

The thickest part of a planet

d)

The densest part of a planet.