Volcanoes and Earthquakes

What this quiz asks

• What is the horseshoe-shaped belt of volcanoes and earthquakes around the Pacific Ocean called?
• What is molten rock called once it has erupted onto the Earth's surface?
• Which volcano in Washington State erupted catastrophically on 18 May 1980?
• The word 'volcano' comes from Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
• What is the point on the Earth's surface directly above the origin of an earthquake called?
• Which scale for measuring the magnitude of earthquakes was devised in 1935?
• A tsunami is usually a single giant wave.
• Which Indonesian volcano erupted in 1883 with a bang heard nearly 5,000 km away?
• The great earthquake of April 1906, and the fires that followed it, destroyed much of which city?
• Select ALL of these volcanoes that are in Italy.
• Which Icelandic volcano's ash cloud grounded flights across much of Europe in April 2010?
• What type of volcano, with broad gentle slopes built up by runny lava, are the great volcanoes of Hawaii?
• In what year did Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupt, cooling the whole planet for a while?
• Which scientist proposed the idea of continental drift in 1912?
• Can strong earthquakes happen in the middle of a tectonic plate, far from any plate boundary?
• What is the fast avalanche of scorching gas, ash and rock that can rush down a volcano's slopes called?
• Order these volcanoes by summit height above sea level, highest first.
• Select ALL of these volcanoes that stand in the Andes.
• The Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004 was set off by an earthquake off which island?
• Paricutín, a volcano that burst out of a farmer's cornfield in 1943, is in which country?