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Mountain and Volcano Review

Quiz by Vicky L. Keating

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  • Q1
    In areas where the lithosphere is being pulled apart, the crust
    breaks into blocks separated by faults
    slides down into the mantle
    folds and crumples into mountains
    develops a subduction zone
    30s
  • Q2
    When two plates carrying continental crust collide, the rock of the continents
    melts
    expands
    folds
    stretches
    30s
  • Q3
    Volcanoes in the Ring of Fire are supplied with magma rising from
    spreading centers
    rift valleys
    subduction zones
    hot spots
    30s
  • Q4
    The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends mostly on the ___________________ of the magma.
    temperature
    silica content
    amount
    water content
    30s
  • Q5
    The type of magma erupting from a volcano determines the volcano's
    shape
    location
    age
    focus
    30s
  • Q6
    A dead volcano is called what?
    active
    extinct
    dormant
    asleep
    30s
  • Q7
    A sleeping volcano is called what?
    dormant
    alive
    extinct
    active
    30s
  • Q8
    What are the mountains that form as blocks of rock move up or down along normal faults.
    Shield Mountains
    Folded Mountains
    Fault Block Mountains
    Bent Mountains
    30s
  • Q9
    Folded mountains form at which type of plate boundary?
    transform
    convergent
    subductive
    divergent
    30s
  • Q10
    What do earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain building have in common?
    They result from plate motion.
    They occur suddenly.
    They occur suddenly.
    They are measured by seismographs.
    30s
  • Q11
    Which of these is NOT a type of volcano?
    Cinder
    Super
    Shield
    Stratovolcano
    30s
  • Q12
    Earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely found in which locations?
    in the middle of the plates
    in the middle of continents
    in oceans
    at plate boundaries
    30s
  • Q13
    Where are most volcanoes located?
    Berlin
    London
    Ring of Fire
    Atlantic Ocean
    30s
  • Q14
    What is liquid rock called within the Earth's surface?
    pyroclastics
    magma
    diamonds
    lava
    30s
  • Q15
    What type of volcano is built almost entirely from ejected lava fragments?
    Composite Volcano
    Stratovolcano
    Shield Volcano
    Cinder Cone
    30s

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