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Hot - Spot

Total questions: 7

Worksheet time: 70secs

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Class
Date
1.

What are hot spot?

a)

where usually many volcanoes.

b)

where usually volcanoes located.

c)

volcanoes located in different parts.

2.

On Earth, hotspot volcanoes tend not to grow very large because:

a)

The lava they produce is very dense.

b)

Hotspots do not produce much magma.

c)

The lithosphere moves while the hotspot stays in one place.

d)

The hotspot moves steadily beneath the lithosphere.

3.

What makes magma different from lava?

a)

The composition

b)

The location

c)

The temperature

d)

The color

4.

Most new ocean crust forms.

a)

At mid-ocean ridges

b)

Along deep sea trenches

c)

At the edges of continents

5.

The orientation of a hotspot track can be used to infer..

a)

Where a new plate boundary is likely to form in the near future.

b)

The direction of motion of a tectonic plate.

c)

Where strong earthquakes arelikely to occur.

6.

Which among the volcano is 0/1 the oldest? youngest?

a)

Kauai/Hawaii

b)

Oahu

c)

Kauai

d)

Hawaii

7.

What is the first volcano formed

a)

Oahu

b)

Hawaii/Oahu

c)

Hawaii

d)

Kauai