3rd EXAMINATION in SCIENCE

GRADE 9

NAME:_________________________ DATE:_______________________
SECTION:_______________________ SCORE:_______________________

I. Multiple choice
Direction: encircle the correct answer
1. where do most volcanoes earth occur?
A. Along the equator B. on land
C. on the ocean floor D. over hotspots
2. How many volcanoes are erupting around the world on an given day?
A. 10 B.200
C. 50 D.500
3. What are the largest volcano in the world?
A. Vesuvius, Sicily B. Sakurajima, Indonesia
C. Mount tambura, Indonesia D. Maunaloa, Hawaii
4. A volcano is considered as extinct when it hasn’t erupted. In how many years?
A. 5,000 B. 10,00
C. 500 D.1000
5. how fast can volcanic ash spread more through the air?
A. 30mph(48KPH) B.125mph(201KHP)
C.50mph(80KPH) D. 200mph(322 KPH)
 II. TRUE OR FALSE
DIRECTION: Write CAPITAL T if it is true then write CAPITAL F if the sentence is
wrong
6. crater is the mouth of volcano.

7. The volcanoes erupt on the ocean floor that create under water mountain and mountain
ranges as the released of lava cools and harden.

8. A 1,247 Kilauea volcano found in Hawaii is example of active volcano.

9. Active volcano have not erupted for very long time but erupt at a future.

10. shield volcanoes are associated with fluid basic lava.

III. COMPLETION TEST

Direction: Complete the sentence by supplying the correct term described in each item.
Write your answer on the space provided.

1 The term volcano come from ___________.

2. The states of volcanoes currently spewing smoke, ash, steam cinders and lava is
called _________.
3. Type of magma containing little silica is referred to as ____________________.
4. A broad volcano made of flat layers of basaltic lava is ____________________-.
5. The three types of volcanic eruption are called ________
IV. MATCHING TYPE
Direction: Match Column A to Column B by writing the letter of the correct answer
before the number.

Column A Column B

_____1. It is described as an excessively

A. Phreatomagmatic
explosive and violent type of eruption where
gases boiling out of gas-rich magma generate
B. Phreatic or
massive and nearly continuous spurting blasts hydrothermal
that core out the magma conduit and rip it apart.
_____2. This type of eruption results from the C. Plinian
fragmentation and explosion of a lava plug in a
volcanic conduit or from the rupture of a lava dome D. Strombolian
(viscous lava that piles up over a vent).
_____3. A periodic weak to violent eruption E. Cinder Cone Volcano
characterized by fountain lava, the explosions
usually occur every few minutes at regular or F. Vulcanian
irregular intervals.
_____4. A violent volcanic eruption due to the G. Stratovolcanoes
contact between water and magma and can be
very explosive.
_____5. It is a stream-driven eruption as the hot
rocks come in contact with water.