Unit 25 | Student Practice Quizzes | Physical Geography: The Global Environment, Second Edition

Question 1:

Which of the following sites did not experience a recorded phreatic eruption?
a) Tambora
b) Santorini
c) Krakatau
d) Mount St Helens
e) All experienced phreatic eruptions.

Question 2:

What is the term for a dangerous cloud of gas and dust expelled from a volcano?
a) Nuee ardente
b) Lahar
c) Pahoehoe
d) Hot spot
e) Aa

Question 3:

When the walls of a volcano collapse, what landform is created?
a) A cordillera
b) A shield
c) A plate
d) A dome
e) A caldera

Question 4:

Landforms resulting from oozing, acidic lava are ________.
a) cinder cones
b) lava domes
c) pahoehoes
d) lahars
e) volcanic shields

Question 5:

The type of eruption in which water enters the magma chamber is called a ________ eruption.
a) pyroclastic
b) phreatic
c) composite
d) dormant
e) hydrologic

Question 6:

An example of a caldera in the landscape is ________.
a) ash
b) tephra
c) bombs
d) lahar
e) lava dome

Question 7:

Gobs of lava that are thrown high into the air and then solidify are called ________.
a) ash
b) tephra
c) bombs
d) lahar
e) lava dome

Question 8:

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79 it created a ________.
a) lahar
b) nuee ardentes
c) lava dome
d) cinder cone
e) bomb

Question 9:

Less-fluid lava hardens into angular blocks called ________.
a) lahar
b) lava domes
c) cinder cone
d) aa
e) ah

Question 10:

Krakatau and Santorini had a high volcanic explosivity index and generated ________.
a) lava flows
b) lahars
c) cinder cones
d) tsunamis
e) aas

Question 11:

The explosive effects from the eruption of Tambora in Indonesia could be felt in ________.
a) Australia
b) Asia
c) South America
d) Antarctica
e) North America

Question 12:

The largest known volcanic eruption happened in ________.
a) Colorado
b) Alberta
c) Hawaii
d) Kyoto
e) Java

Question 13:

The Mount St Helen explosion is considered to be what category in the volcanic explosivity index?
a) Cataclysmic
b) Paroxysmal
c) Colossal
d) Super-colossal
e) Mega-colossal

Question 14:

The worship of Goddess Pele takes place in ________.
a) Hawaii
b) Japan
c) Indonesia
d) Mediterranean
e) Alaska

Question 15:

During a volcanic eruption, ________ impacts the largest area surrounding the volcano.
a) tephra
b) pyroclastic flow
c) lahar
d) lava flow
e) nuee ardente

Question 16:

About 75 per cent of all the world’s volcanoes are under the sea.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

A dormant volcano shows no signs of life and is weathered and eroded.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

A cinder cone contains no pyroclastics.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

Angular, jagged blocks of solidified lava are called Aa.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

The largest volcanoes, formed over subduction zones, are composite volcanoes.
a) True
b) False

Question 21:

A plume of intense heat that remains in a fixed location along plate boundaries is termed a hotspot.
a) True
b) False

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Physical Geography: The Global Environment, Second Edition - Unit 25