How much do you know about volcanoes?

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English, Geography
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5th - 8th Grade
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Hard

Öznur Kılıç
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1.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
A volcano is a mountain or hill, where molten rock erupts through the surface of the earth.
True
False
2.
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45 sec • 1 pt
A volcano has a vent that allows lava, ash, and gas to escape from a magma chamber below the surface of the Earth.
True
False
3.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
The word 'volcano' comes from the island 'Vulcano' which is a volcanic island in Italy.Vulcano, in turn, gets its name from the Roman God of fire - Vulcan. According to mythology,Vulcan lived in a volcano, Romans believed that if Vulcan was made angry, the volcano would erupt.
True
False
4.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Lava glows white to red hot as it flows. The temperature of lava ranges between 700 °C and 1200 °C.
True
False
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
There are around __________ active volcanoes in the word.
151
1,510
15,100
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
There are around _______ volcanoes under the oceans, that we know of.
80
800
8,000
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Mauna Kea in Hawaii is the biggest volcano on Earth and is taller than Mount Everest. It is ________ meters tall but, because most of it is underwater, it seems much smaller.
102
1,020
10,200
8.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Even when the side of the volcano is steep, lava does not flow faster than ___________ kilometres per hour. This means that a person could comfortably outpace lava flow over a short distance.
3
30
300
9.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The largest volcano eruption in human history was at _______ in 1815. It ranked a 7 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index, the second highest rating on the index.
Mount Etna
Mount Tambora
Mount Vesuvius
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