Science teset

Question 1

what type of rocks are volcanoes made of

Answer 1

igneous

Question 2

The term volcano originally came from the name for what

Answer 2

Roman God

Question 3

A_____________ is a depositional mountain built up by molsten rock that has risen to the earth’s surface through a vent

Answer 3

volcano

Question 4

a volcano begins to form when magma forces its way to the surfac and breaks through forming a hole or what

Answer 4

vent

Question 5

what is magma that reaches the earth’s surface

Answer 5

lava

Question 6

The depression found at the top of most volcanic cones is called a __________

Answer 6

Crater

Question 7

What is a crater like depression cuased by an explosion or the collapse of a volcanic cone

Answer 7

caldera

Question 8

Where does pillow lava form

Answer 8

under water

Question 9

Does a pyroclastic flow or glowing avalanche contain both gases and hto solid particles

Answer 9

yes

Question 10

A mudslide caused a volcano is called a what

Answer 10

lahar

Question 11

A ______________ is a vent in the ground through which hot gasses escape

Answer 11

fumaroles

Question 12

Is the term tephra used to descube flowing lava that has cooled and soldfied on the ground

Answer 12

no

Question 13

What are tiny angular galassy garments of solid lava called

Answer 13

ash

Question 14

What is a steramlined mass o ejected lava blobs that soldified in flight called

Answer 14

bomb

Question 15

Which of these lists is in the correct order from samllest to largest ash cinder bomb ash bomb cinder cinder ahs bomb cinder bomb ash

Answer 15

ash cinder bomb

Question 16

Is the circum pacific volcano belt sometimes called the ring of fire

Answer 16

yes

Question 17

Are many volcanoes found in areas of tectonic activity

Answer 17

yes

Question 18

Which organimsa re the base or first step of the food chainaround black smokers deep within the ocean

Answer 18

bacteria

Question 19

Flood _____ are thick layers of igneous rock covering larege portions of teh eath they are thought to have formed whn huge quantitiies of mama were realeased through cracks in the earth’s curst

Answer 19

basalts

Question 20

What is a volcao that emits molsty lava in quiet eruptions

Answer 20

shield volcanoes

Question 21

Can volcanoes be classifeid by age structure and activity

Answer 21

no

Question 22

what is teh name of a volco that emists lava and solid debries in alternatley quiet and explosives eruptions

Answer 22

stratovolcanoes

Question 23

Do stratovolcaoes release lava and pyroclasitc materail that form layers or strata

Answer 23

yes

Question 24

What is the name of a volcao that emits moslty cindrs, ahses, and bombs

Answer 24

cinder cones

Question 25

Which of the following is not aterm realating to the activity levle of a volcano active inert extinct or dormatn

Answer 25

inert

Question 26

What is the name of a colcao that has no historical reord of erpution and showing no seismic indications of activity deep undergoudn

Answer 26

extinct

Question 27

Which of these volcanoes is located in the state of Washington

Answer 27

Mt saint helens

Question 28

Have some volcaoes that were considered dormant erupted with disastrous reslults

Answer 28

yes

Question 29

Which of the following statements descibes a typial young earth creation gologists view of volcanoes

Answer 29

most formed druing or shorly after the flood

Question 30

The VEI of a volcnaos’s eripton is based on what

Answer 30

The amount of tephra a volcano produces, Height of teh eruption cloud, and a dieseroptive estimate of teh explosian

Question 31

Vertical is to dike as horizontal is to what

Answer 31

sills

Question 32

are sill and dikes products of intrusive volcanism

Answer 32

yes

Question 33

Did the eruption of MT. Tambora affect not just the island wher it occurered but the weateher of the entie eath for more than a year

Answer 33

yes

Question 34

Batholiths and laccoliths are both types of what

Answer 34

plutons

Question 35

does the term geothermal gradient refer to the way the temperature withing the earth decreases continouously with depth

Answer 35

no

Question 36

Unlike hot springs geysers do not precuce distinct mineral epostis

Answer 36

false

Question 37

A hydrotheraml circuit is best seen in what

Answer 37

eruption of a geyser

Question 38

Is geyser water heated by magma

Answer 38

yes

Question 39

A spring that periodically ejects large quantities of hot water and steam is known as a what

Answer 39

geyser

Question 40

The internal energy of the eart, particularly evident in areas where hot springs and getsers exist, is sometimes harnessed for a man’s use This is called____________ energy

Answer 40

geotheraml

Question 41

Has geotheraml envergy become the larggs source of electricity in the United States

Answer 41

no

Question 42

Which structure type is omposed of alternating layers of lava and cindrs

Answer 42

Stratovolcano

Question 43

Study The Diagram

Question 44

Channel for lava

Answer 44

neck

Question 45

Intrusions

Answer 45

sill/dikes

Question 46

side cone

Answer 46

parasitic vent

Question 47

depression

Answer 47

crater

Question 48

Layer of pyroclastic materail and ash

Answer 48

tephra

Question 49

structure

Answer 49

composite cone

Question 50

Molten rock

Answer 50

Magma chamber

Question 51

erupts lava

Answer 51

vent