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Term for a conical volcano that has been gradually built up by layers of rock

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Stratovolcano

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Term for a low-profile volcano built up over time by broad sheets of low viscosity lava

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Shield volcano

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Southernmost active volcano in the world, found in Antarctica

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Mount Erebus

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Location of Ross Island, on which Mount Erebus sits

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Antarctica

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Volcano which takes its name for, the primordial personification of darkness in Greek mythology

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Mount Erebus

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Volcano on Ross Island, whose northeast slope is known as “Fang Ridge”

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Mount Erebus

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Volcano into which a 1979 Air New Zealand jet crashed into, killing 257 people

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Mount Erebus

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Stratovolcano in eastern Sicily that plays a significant role in ancient Greek myth

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Mount Etna

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Location of Mount Etna

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Catania, a town in eastern Sicily

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Mountain under which Zeus trapped the monster Typhon and the site of Hephaestus’ forges

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Mount Etna

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Volcano whose most recent eruption was in 2015. Earlier eruptions occurred in 1928, destroying the village of Mascali, and 1669, when it was thought to have gone dormant

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Mount Etna

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Volcano with a large depression on the side known as Valle del Bove or “Valley of the Ox”

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Mount Etna

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Japanese island on which Mount Fuji is situated

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Honshu

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The Three Holy Mountains of Japan

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Mount Fuji, Mount Haku, and Mount Tate

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Volcano which last erupted in December 1707 during the lava-less Hoei eruption

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Mount Fuji

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Mountain off whose slope the Aokigahara, or “Suicide Forest” is found

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Mount Fuji

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Common name for Aokigahara, a geographical feature on Honshu, Japan

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Suicide Forest

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Shield volcano that is the most active volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii

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Kilauea

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Hawaiian volcano whose name means “spewing” or “spreading” in the native language

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Kilauea

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Volcano that is the home of the fire goddess Pele in Hawaiian mythology

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Kilauea

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Volcano whose three primary craters are Halema’uma’u Crater, Pu’u Crater, and Pu’u ‘O’ o Crater

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Kilauea

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Volcano covered by the Ka’u Desert, a plain of dried lava and volcanic ash

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Kilauea

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Mountain whose caldera is the site of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory

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Kilauea

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The two Indonesian islands between which Krakatoa lies

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Sumatra and Java

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Volcano island in the Sunda Strait of the Pacific Ring of Fire

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Krakatoa

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Year in which Krakatoa erupted, killing more than 35,000 people and believed to have produced the loudest sound ever

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1883

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Volcano that erupted in 1883, killing more than 35,000 people and believed to have produced the loudest sound ever

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Krakatoa

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Volcano that, prior to a massive eruption, had three separate peaks: Perboewetan (destroyed), Rakata (extant), and Danan (almost destroyed)

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Krakatoa

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New island formed in 1927 by the continued activity of Krakatoa

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Anak Krakatau (“Child of Krakatoa”)

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Shield volcano that is the most massive above-sea volcano on Earth

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Mauna Loa

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Dormant volcano that is the tallest mountain in Hawaii, and taller than Mount Everest when measured from base to summit

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Mauna Kea

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The two volcanoes that form the Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, established in 1916 by Woodrow Wilson

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Kilauea, Mauna Loa

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Volcano that erupted in 1942, four months after the attack on Pearl Harbour, causing the U.S. government to gag the press from reporting on it

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Mauna Loa

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Stratovolcano in the Zambales Mountains on the eastern coast of Luzon

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Mount Pinatubo

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Location of Mount Pinatube and the Zambales Mountains

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Eastern coast of Luzon in the Philippines

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Volcano whose 1991 eruption killed at least 800 people and caused the global temperature to briefly decrease by a full degree Fahrenheit due to the ejection of aerosols and sulfurique acid

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Mount Pinatubo

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Volcano whose monsoon rains, in the aftermath of its 1991 eruption, created a namesake lake in its resulting crater

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Mount Pinatubo

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Indigenous peoples granted domain over Mount Pinatubo in 2010

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Aeta people

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Volcano over which the indigenous Aeta people were formally granted domain in 2010

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Mount Pinatubo

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Stratovolcano that is the highest peak in the Cascades and in the state of Washington

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Mount Rainier

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Volcano whose principal peaks are Columbia Crest (the tallest), Point Success, and Liberty Cap; Little Tacoma Peak is a remnant of a much older, since-eroded mountain

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Mount Rainier

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Volcano about 50 miles southeast of Seattle that has not erupted since the mid-to-late nineteenth century

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Mount Rainier

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Volcano on which the Nisqually Glacier tracks climate change, the Emmons Glacier is the largest by area in the contiguous U.S., and the Carbon Glacier is the largest by volume

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Mount Rainier

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Volcano in the Cascades of Washington, about 100 miles south of Seattle and about 50 miles north of Portland

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Mount Saint Helens

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Volcano which last erupted in May 1980, killing 57 people in the most devastating volcano eruption in U.S. history

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Mount Saint Helens

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Date on which Mount Saint Helens erupted, killing 57 people in the most devastating U.S. volcanic eruption

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18 May, 1980

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Innkeeper who refused to evacuate from Mount Saint Helens during its 1980 eruption

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Harry Truman

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Term for mudflows of pyroclastic materials down the slope of a volcano

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Lahar

49
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Location of Mount Vesuvius

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Gulf of Naples in Campania, south-central Italy

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The only active volcano in mainland Europe, that last erupted in 1944

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Mount Vesuvius

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The three Roman cities buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD

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Pompei, Herculaneum, Stabiae

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Author who wrote the only surviving eyewitness accounts of the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius, to Tacitus

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Pliny the Elder

53
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Year in which the Summer Olympics were relocated from Rome to London after a surprise eruption of Mount Vesuvius

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1908

54
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Longest river in North America

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The Mississippi River

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River referred to by Abraham Lincoln as “the father of waters”, forming portions of ten state borders

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The Mississippi River

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River beginning at Lake Itasca, Minnesota and flowing 2,340 miles to the Gulf of Mexico

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The Mississippi River

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River which picks up numerous major tributaries including the Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, Arkansas, and Red Rivers

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The Mississippi River

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River flowing past numerous major cities including Minneapolis, St. Louis, Memphis, and New Orleans

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The Mississippi River

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Location of the beginning of the Mississippi River

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Lake Itaska, Minnesota

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River beginning in Rocky Mountain National Park, running southwest for 1,450 miles to the Gulf of California in northwest Mexico

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The Colorado River

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River which forms numerous canyons alongs it’s length, notably the Grand Canyon in Arizona

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The Colorado River

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River with the Hoover Dam near Las Vegas and the Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona

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The Colorado River

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The two lakes formed by the Hoover Dam and Glen Canyon Dam, respectively; dams of the Colorado River

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Lake Mead, Lake Powell

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River flowing 981 miles through a significant industrial region of the central U.S.

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The Ohio River

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River historically seen as the border between the northern and southern U.S.

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The Ohio River

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River formed in downtown Pittsburgh by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers

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The Ohio River

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The two rivers that form the confluence of the Ohio River

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Allegheny River, Monongehala River

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River flowing past Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Evansville, before emptying into the Mississippi at Cairo, Illinois

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The Ohio River

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River with major tributaries including the Kanawha, Kentucky, Tennessee, Wabash, and Cumberland Rivers

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The Ohio River

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