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Which boundary creates volcanos?
Convergent
What are groups of volcanoes called?
If it is a single island, it is simply known as a volcanic island! If however it is a chain or string of separate islands then it may be a volcanic island arc (these form parallel to trenches at subduction zones) or a volcanic island chain (these form where a mantle plume creates a hotspot and may be in the centre of a tectonic plate. A good example would be the Hawaiian island chain). They can also form a cluster of islands (an archipelago) such as the Canary Islands (again formed by hotspot volcanism) in the Atlantic of the coast of Morocco.
What are the differences between ocean ridge and seamount?
The midocean ridges are the spreading centers where the plates are moving apart. The seamounts are extinct volcanos produced as the plate passed over a mantle hotspot.
Hawaii is on what kind of fault?
Actually, it was a volcanic hotspot in the middle of the Pacific Plate that formed the island chain.
Is an area where material from deep within the mantle rises and then melts forming magma?
This is known as a hotspot. Examples include the hotspot responsible for the Hawaiian Ridge-Emperor Seamounts chain and the one responsible for the significant volcanism of Iceland.
Do shield volcanos form at a transform boundary?
No type of volcano forms at transform boundaries, unless an unconnected event (hot spot) creates it. Basically, no.
What creates the volcano to erupt?
when to plate move away from each other a volcano forms. that causes a volcano to change wich changes land and continets and volcanos when a plate changes a volcanoe forms. wich volcanos erupt. by leanna lara la pluma
What is the area where magma from deep within the mantle melts through the crust?
This is known as a hotspot. Examples include the hotspot responsible for the Hawaiian Ridge-Emperor Seamounts chain and the one responsible for the significant volcanism of Iceland.
What does a Nintendo USB connecter do?
It creates a wireless 'hotspot' for Nintendo DS or Wii to connect to. You would use it if you do not have your own wireless router, but had a wired connection instead.
What and where is the ''Ring of Fire''?
The ring of fire is located by Japan,Hawaii,San Fransisco.Approximately 50 miles away.The ring of fire is a chain of volcanos
What formed the Hawiian island chain?
The Hawaiian island chain was formed by a hotspot in the Earth's mantle where a tectonic plate moves over a fixed plume of magma. As the plate moves, it creates a trail of volcanic islands, with older islands eroding and sinking away from the hotspot as new islands are continually formed. This process has resulted in the formation of the Hawaiian Islands over millions of years.
What is a producer and a consumer in a food chain?
The producer is the plant that creates energy using photosynthesis. The consumor is anything after that in the food chain.
