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The Pacific 'Ring of Fire' is its full proper name and so the Ring of Fire is situated around the edges of the Pacific plate.

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What type of plate movement could form the ring of fire?

The Ring of Fire is formed by the subduction of oceanic plates beneath continental plates or other oceanic plates. This movement creates volcanic activity and seismic events around the Pacific Ocean.


What caused colima to form at its present location?

It is within the ring of fire, where tectonic plates collide.


What type of plates is the ring of fire on?

volcano


How did the Ring of Fire form?

The Ring of Fire is formed by the movement of Earth's crustal plates which are causing the Pacific Ocean to be subducted under less dense plates. This subduction results in underwater and continental volcanism, resulting in a line of eruptions which appear around its boundaries with other plates.


How does the ring of fire form volcanoes?

The pacific plate pushes up against the plates surrounding it; thus creating volcanoes.


What were the two plate tectonics that formed the ring of fire?

There are more than two plates involved in the ring of fire.


What types of plates does the ring of fire have?

Some plates they have are plates made in China. They worlds Populates state. :)


Why does the ring of fire have the most active volcanoes?

There are more active volcanoes in the ring of fire because the ring of fire has the most moving plates. When plates move they cause volcanic eruptions. Places farther away or not in the ring of fire will not erupt as often or will only erupt once before extinction.


Why does the ring of fire have tsunamis volcanoes and earthquakes?

The Ring of Fire is also known as the Pacific Ring of Fire. The yellow line is the location of the Ring of Fire. The Ring of Fire is bascically where the Earth's tectonic plates have spread apart and cracked, allowing warm lava to rise and causing many earthquakes and volcanoes. Also, the plates here often shift and that is why there are often tsunamis. Tsunamis are caused underwater by onshore earthquakes that are very powerful.


Is the pacific ring of fire next to a fault line?

Not a fault line, many fault lines. The Pacific Ring of Fire consists of a series of plate boundaries that border the edges of the Pacific, Nazca, and Cocos plates and a few minor plates that form the floor of the Pacific Ocean.


What is the ring of fire dng with volcanos?

The short answer for this is that many times volcanoes form along earth quake fault lines. This is not always the case though as they can form in the middle of earth's plates also. (earth quake fault lines are usually found on plate boundaries, where two plates meet)


What does the ring of fire have to do with earthquackes?

"The ring of fire" is the name given to tectonic plates that meet in a circular fashion with the Pacific ocean in the middle. These plates tend to move around causing earthquakes.