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What is an example of a composite volcano?

A) Fujiyama, Japan
B) Nevado del Ruiz, Columbia
C) Mount Vesuvius, Italy
D) Mount St. Helens, Washington
E) All of these

F) A) and E)
G) C) and D)

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Give an example of a caldera.

A) Mount St. Helens, Washington
B) Paricutin, Mexico
C) El Chichon, Mexico
D) Krakatau, Java
E) Crater Lake, Oregon

F) B) and E)
G) C) and D)

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A lahar is a volcanic mud flow.

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

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

What are the three main types of volcanoes?

How do pillow lavas form?

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

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

Name an example of a cinder cone volcano.

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

The dominant gas emitted from volcanoes is ____________________.

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

Lava flows are the greatest hazard of volcanoes.

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

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

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

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?

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

Basalt plateaus erupt from ____.