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Junior Cycle Geography: Volcanoes
How often Volcanoes comes up on the Geography papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.
CL Asked on 3 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. most years
Volcanoes, Common Level(6 marks)
Quick ones on Volcanoes.
(a)A volcano that has not erupted for centuries but could erupt again is?
- Extinct
- Dormant
- Active
(b)Magma that has poured out onto the Earth's surface is called?
- Crust
- Ash
- Lava
(c)The belt of volcanoes and earthquakes around the Pacific Ocean is called the?
- Ring of Fire
- Great Rift Valley
- Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Show the answers
(a) Dormant
(b) Lava
(c) Ring of Fire
Common Level
Asked on 3 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. most years
Every paper, year by year
| Year | Where it came up |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Q3A |
| 2025 | Q3C |
| 2024 | Not asked |
| 2023 | Q7B |
| 2022 | Not asked |
Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.
More Volcanoes questions
Volcanoes, 2 marks
Which is a POSITIVE effect of volcanoes for people?
- Ash clouds closing airports
- Lava burying homes and roads
- Fertile soil for farming
Show the answer
Fertile soil for farming
Volcanic ash weathers into rich soil, so farmers grow crops on slopes like those of Mount Etna. Tourism and geothermal energy, as in Iceland, are other benefits.
Other Geography topics
- Aerial photographs
- Energy resources
- Life chances of young people
- Migration
- OS map skills
- Rivers
- Rural and urban settlement
- Tourism and transport
- Weather instruments and charts
- Aid to developing countries
- Economic development
- Mass movement
- Plate tectonics and fold mountains
- Population and the DTM
- Primary activities and resources
- Urbanisation and urban change
- Weathering and karst
- Climate
- Climate change
- Coasts
- Earthquakes
- Glaciation
- Globalisation
- Rock types
- Secondary activities
- Significant weather events
- Soils
- Managing surface processes
- Rock exploitation