Geography

Question 1

What word describes a conical volcano that has been gradually built up by layers of rock?

Answer 1

Stratovolcano

Question 2

Which type of volcano is built up over time by broad sheets of viscous lava?

Answer 2

Shield volcano

Question 3

Which active volcano, the southernmost in the world, sits on Ross Island in Antarctica?

Its northeast slope is known as “Fang Ridge” and its underground magma produces unique pieces of feldspar.

Answer 3

Mount Erebus

Question 4

Which active stratovolcano is eastern Sicily is known in Greek myth as the place where Zeus trapped the monster Typhon?

It overlooks the Sicilian town of Catania and most recently erupted in 2015.

Answer 4

Mount Etna

Question 5

Which three mountains in Japan are known as the “Three Holy Mountains”?

Answer 5

Mount Fuji, Mount Haku, Mount Tate

Question 6

The Suicide Forest, situated off the northwestern slope of Mount Fuji, is also known by what Japanese name?

Answer 6

Aokigahara

Question 7

Which shield volcano, the most active of the five volcanoes on the Big Island of Hawaii, has a name meaning “spewing” or “spreading”?

Answer 7

Kilauea

Question 8

Which stratovolcanic island in the Sundra Strait between Sumatra and Java is also one of the largest volcanoes in the Pacific Ring of Fire?

Answer 8

Krakatoa

Question 9

Before its massive 1883 eruption, Krakatoa was three separate volcanic peaks with what names?

Answer 9

Perboewatan, Rakata, Danan

Question 10

Which volcano, located on the Big Island of Hawaii, is the tallest above-sea volcano on Earth?

It forms the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, established in 1916 by Woodrow Wilson.

Answer 10

Mauna Loa

Question 11

Mount Pinatubo, a stratovolcano on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, is situated in which mountain range?

Answer 11

Zambales Mountains

Question 12

Located about 50 miles southeast of Seattle, which stratovolcano is the highest peak in the Cascades and in the state of Washington?

Answer 12

Mount Rainier

Question 13

Which glacier, located off the slop of Mount Rainier in Washington state, is the largest in the contiguous U.S.?

Answer 13

Emmons Glacier

Question 14

Which stratovolcano in the Cascades of Washington state is located about 100 miles south of Seattle and 50 miles north of Portland?

It last erupted in May 1980, killing 57 people in the most devastating eruption in U.S. history.

Answer 14

Mount Saint Helens

Question 15

The only surviving accounts of the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius are those written by which Roman senator and writer?

Answer 15

Pliny the Younger