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Test Study Guide—Chapter 10
1. What is a composite cone?
2. What is another name for pyroclastics?
3. List the examples of pyroclastics.
4. What is the difference between blocks and bombs.
5. What is the difference between felsic and mafic lava/magma?
6. What is the difference between lava and magma?
7. Where do rift eruptions occur?
8. What are the characteristics of a shield volcano eruption?
9. Where would you find a shield volcano eruption?
10. When and where did Mt. St. Helens erupt?
11. What is the difference between aa and pahoehoe?
A magma’s viscosity is directly related to its ____.
Which of the following factors helps determine whether a volcanic eruption will be violent or
relatively quiet?
As the temperature of lava increases, ____.
Which of the following is NOT a factor affecting how violently or quietly a volcano erupts?
Highly explosive volcanoes tend to have what type of magma?
What type of volcano is built almost entirely from ejected lava fragments?
The broad, slightly dome-shaped volcanoes of Hawaii are ____.
A volcano that is fairly symmetrical and has both layers of lava and pyroclastic deposits is a
____.
Which of the following is true about cinder cones?
The most violent volcanic eruptions are associated with what type of volcano?
A caldera is a ____.
Lava plateaus form when ____.
The volcanic landform that is formed when the more resistant volcanic pipe remains after most of
the cone has been eroded is called a ____.
Structures that form from the cooling and hardening of magma beneath Earth’s surface are ____.
How are intrusive igneous bodies classified?
Which type of intrusive feature forms when magma is injected into fractures cutting across
preexisting rock layers?
A lens-shaped intrusive igneous mass close to Earth’s surface is called a ____.
What commonly horizontal intrusive igneous body is formed when magma is injected parallel to
sedimentary bedding planes?
Which of the following factors affects the melting point of rock?
Magma tends to rise towards Earth’s surface primarily because ____.
Most shield volcanoes have grown from the ocean floor to form ____.
The volcanic landforms at divergent ocean plate boundaries are ____.
The igneous activity in Yellowstone National Park is associated with what tectonic setting?
a.
divergent plate boundary
b.
convergent oceanic-oceanic plate boundary
c.
intraplate setting
d.
convergent oceanic-continental plate boundary
The Hawaiian Islands are associated with what type of volcanism?
a.
intraplate volcanism
b.
subduction zone volcanism
c.
volcanism at a divergent plate boundary
d.
volcanism at a convergent plate boundary