Exam 5: Volcanoes and Volcanism

Give an example of a caldera.

Which is the correct ranking of regions with the most active volcanoes and volcanic activity? 1)Circum-Pacific belt 2)Mid-oceanic ridges 3)Mediterranean Belt 4)isolated sites like the Hawaiian Islands

The volcanic explosivity index (VEI)can be correlated with the number of deaths caused by an eruption.

Basalt plateaus erupt from ____.

Why are there volcanoes on the west coast of North America but not on the east coast?

The dominant gas emitted from volcanoes is ____________________.

How could carbon dioxide gas cause so many deaths in Cameroon?

How do pillow lavas form?

Name an example of a cinder cone volcano.

A lahar is a volcanic mud flow.

Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii is huge and has gentle slopes.Mt.Rainier in Washington is tall,with much steeper slopes.Paricutin in Mexico is smaller and has very steep slopes composed of loose pyroclastic material.What type of volcano does each one represent,and what kind of volcanic activity produced it?

How did the recent eruptions of Mt.Pinatubo,in the Philippines,and Kilauea,in Hawaii,differ?

What are the three main types of volcanoes?

Andesite is the type of lava most likely to erupt in a fissure eruption.

What is an example of a composite volcano?

What type of eruption is mainly responsible for producing plateau basalts?

What other bodies in the solar system are thought to possess active volcanoes?

Lava flows are the greatest hazard of volcanoes.

Composite volcanoes are also known as ____________________ and are composed of both ____________________ flows and ____________________ material.

What causes the configuration of the islands that make up Santorini? How has volcanism at Santorini affected the people who live there?