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An underwater volcano can cause pillow basalts and rare tsunamis. Underwater volcanoes are formed by hot spots in the Earth's mantle.
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Is forming underwater mountains and volcanoes convergent divergent or transform?
Underwater volcanoes and mountains can form at both convergent and divergent boundaries.
Why are earthquakes mountains and volcanoes in the same classification?
They are all natural things caused by tectonic plates
What are the damages caused by a under water volcanoes?
All volcanoes have some dangers, of course. Some underwater volcanoes can lead to tsunamis or other forms of water disasters. Land volcanoes spit ouot hot ash and lava and molten rock, and smoke as well, so much so that you could be burned alive by boiling hot ash, choked to death by smoke or gas or burned by lava, or even crushed by falling rock.
What are Underwater volcanoes called?
Underwater volcanoes are called submarine volcanoes. They form in a similar way as their continental counterparts, that is close to plate boundaries.
How do underwater volcanoes affect marine life?
Underwater volcanoes introduce substances into the water that bacteria can feed on. These bacteria are the source of nutrition for miniature ecosystems that emerge around such volcanoes.
Is forming underwater mountains and volcanoes convergent divergent or transform?
Underwater volcanoes and mountains can form at both convergent and divergent boundaries.
What magma forms underwater mountains?
Volcanoes
What does the floor look like?
Mountains/ridges and underwater volcanoes
How are earthquakes and volcanoes and mountains are related?
because volcanoes can also be caused by plates
What is the main source for tsnami?
An earthquake underwater. The can also be caused by erupting volcanoes.
Some Caribbean islands are formed from the tops of underwater mountains while others are formed from .?
active volcanoes
4 Some Caribbean islands are formed from the tops of underwater mountains while others are formed from?
active volcanoes
Can volcanoes occur underwater?
Yes and a great many of the earth's volcanoes are underwater.
What landform is created when convergent plates met along oceanic crusts?
One will sink beneath the other creating under water volcanoes, mountains and trench (I think)
What is an example of the hawaiian islands?
Hawaii is example of a one islands in the world!
Why are earthquakes mountains and volcanoes in the same classification?
They are all natural things caused by tectonic plates
What are the damages caused by a under water volcanoes?
All volcanoes have some dangers, of course. Some underwater volcanoes can lead to tsunamis or other forms of water disasters. Land volcanoes spit ouot hot ash and lava and molten rock, and smoke as well, so much so that you could be burned alive by boiling hot ash, choked to death by smoke or gas or burned by lava, or even crushed by falling rock.
