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Why do volcanoes erupt at destructive plate boundaries?

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Pasquale Wisozk

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What does movement along plate boundaries cause?

Earthquakes, volcanoes to erupt, mountains, etc...


Where are the majority of earthquakes and volcanoes in relation to the plate boundaries?

Most earthquakes occur on plate boundaries such as Japan and Chile and most volcanoes occur in diverging plate boundaries like Dallol and Iceland and the Pacific Ring of Fire like Ecuador and Indonesia


What is the difference between hotspot volcanoes and volcanoes formed at plate boundaries?

hotspot volcanoes are formed away from the edge of plate boundaries. Plate boundary volcanoes are near a plate boundary


Were can volcanoes erupt?

Along plate boundries.


What is the where 2 tectonic plates meet called?

a plate boundary there are constructive plate boundaries, destructive plate boundaries, conservative plate boundaries and collision plate boundaries


What is another name for destructive boundaries?

Convergent plate boundaries.


Where are earthquakes and volcanoes found around the world?

Where tectonic plates are converging and diverging with each otherThey are mostly found around the Pacific "Ring of Fire", and more generally on any destructive or contstructive plate boundary.Most occur on destructive plate boundaries. The Pacific 'ring of fire' is an example of a long series of destructive plate margins and most volcanoes and earthquakes on Earth are on it.


What kinds of volcanoes form on converging plate boundaries?

Composite cone volcanos are the most common.. Shielding and other types are results from a divergent boundary.


What types of Volcanoes can occur far from any plate boundaries?

Shield volcanoes may occur far from any plate boundaries.


What boundaries can produce volcanos?

plate boundaries can produce volcanoes


What boundaries produce volcanos?

plate boundaries can produce volcanoes


Where do volcanes erupt?

Along some plate boundaries.