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Volcanoes
Test Description: Volcanoes and Earth's moving plates
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) A volcano is an opening in Earth that erupts gases, ash, and ____________.
A
rocks
B
lava
C
water
D
magma
2) Where do volcanoes form?
A
where plates move apart
B
Where plates move together
C
where it is hot
D
where plates move together or apart
3) What type of plate boundary has the more violent volcanoes
A
divergent
B
sliding
C
transform
D
convergent
4) The Hawaiian Islands were formed by what?
A
divergent boundary
B
transform boundary
C
hot spot
D
convergent boundary
5) What determines whether an eruption is quiet or explosive?
A
temperature
B
water vapor and other gases
C
silica
D
water
6) Which type of volcano has gently sloping sides and form from quiet eruptions?
A
shield
B
cinder cone
C
composite
D
big
7) Which type of volcano forms from tephra that falls to the ground building steep sides?
A
composite
B
mountain
C
shield
D
cinder cone
8) Which volcano is made by alternating layers of quiet lava and explosive tephra? Mt. St. Helen's is one.
A
sea mount
B
shield
C
cinder cone
D
composite
9) What are bodies of rock formed when magma cools slowly and solidifies before reaching the surface?
A
batholiths
B
laccoliths
C
dike
D
sill
10) What is the large depression formed when the top of a volcano collapses?
A
caldera
B
sill
C
dike
D
crater
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