Volcanoes, A Pop Culture Quiz, Am I Wrong, Where Pop Culture Meets It's Match

Volcanoes

This quiz is about volcanoes, and it is multiple-choice.

Quiz created by: Andria

1. What is the meaning of the word "lahar"?

An extremely destructive mudslide caused by glaciers, ice-caps and snow being melted by pyroclastic flows, lava and/or heat from rising magma.
A synonym for "volcanic eruption".
A type of volcanic ash.
A type of volcanic rock.

2. What is lava called before being ejected from the volcano?

3. What country has the most active volcanoes?

4. What is the most dangerous volcano in the United States, and which state is it in?

5. What is a stratovolcano?

6. Why are stratovolcanoes the most dangerous type of volcanic peak?

Because of the large amount of ejected lava.
Because they collapse during eruption and flood vast areas of land with molten lava.
Because extremely large amounts of ash are ejected.
Because of the inherent instability of their flanks and the large amounts of glaciers and snow present on almost all stratovolcanoes.

7. What is the most dangerous type of calamity caused by a volcanic eruption, and why?

A volcanic mudslide, because entire cities can be buried by fast-moving mud that has the consistency of wet concrete and hardens to a rock-like state.
Ashfall, because of damage to crops and adverse affects on the health of people, wildlife and domestic animals.
A lava flow, because molten rock destroys everything that it touches.
A pyroclastic flow, because the superheated gasses and rock fragments will vaporize or ignite anything they come in contact with.

8. Why is the situation of the LaBrea Tar Pits turning into a volcanic peak and destroying Los Angeles impossible?

Because of Hollywood special effects.
Because magma cannot pass through fault lines, only through subduction zones and known volcanic peaks and seamounts.

9. What is a seamount?

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