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Q: Why are volcanoes and seamounts considered tectonic mountains?
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What causes seamounts?

They are formed usually from extinct volcanoes


Where do seamounts form?

Seamounts are volcanic mountains under the sea. They form where magma pushes IRS way through or between tectonic plates. Once they rise above sea level, they are then considered volcanic islands.


What are some volcanoes in Barbados?

It was formed by the tectonic upliftment in the earth's crust.


Where are volcanoes mountains and earthquake form?

Where two tectonic plates meet


Where do earthquakes volcanoes and mountains occur along?

Along the tectonic plate boundaries.


Do the atlas mountains have volcanoes?

No, the Atlas Mountains do not have any active volcanoes. They are primarily formed by tectonic activity and uplift processes rather than volcanic activity.


Do all mountains are said to be volcanoes?

No. Most mountains are created by tectonic plates pushing inot each other.


What are three results of tectonic plate activity?

Results can be such as earthquakes, or mountains and volcanoes forming.


The ocean has valleys and mountains?

The ocean floor does have underwater mountains called seamounts and undersea valleys known as trenches. These features are created by tectonic plate movements and volcanic activity on the ocean floor.


Why are earthquakes mountains and volcanoes in the same classification?

They are all natural things caused by tectonic plates


What feature would you find around converging tectonic plates?

Mountains, volcanoes, earthquake zones


What type of tectonic plate movement can cause the formation of mountains trenches or volcanoes?

weathering and erosion