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Question
What do you understand by ‘Crater of the Volcano’?
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Solution
The crater of a volcano is the mouth of a volcano in its vertex in the form of a circular hole.
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What do you understand by ‘Vulcanism’?
Distinguish between the following pair of terms associated with vulcanicity:
Cinder Cone and Composite Cone
Distinguish between the following pair of terms associated with vulcanicity:
Fissure-type Volcanoes and Central-types Volcanoes
Distinguish between the following pair of terms associated with vulcanicity:
Crater and Caldera
Answer the following:
Some volcanoes erupt explosively.
What are tectonic movements? How are these classified?
How the theory of plate tectonics has explained the formation of mountains like Himalaya or Alps and of the volcanic islands.
______ belt is known as the “Ring of Fire”.
Assertion (A): The Pacific Ocean includes two thirds of the world’s volcanoes.
Reason (R): The boundary along the Eastern and Western coast areas of the Pacific Ocean is known as the Pacific Ring of Fire.
Choose the odd one
Vesuvius, Stromboli, St.Helena, Etna.
