Where are the 3 major earthquake belts?

Answer 1

1.Thermal pressure belts

Equatorial low pressure belt lies with 5 degrees of north and south of equator.(DOLDRUMS)

b.Polar high pressure belt are formed around the north and south polar regions.

2.Other pressure belts

a.Sub tropical high pressure belts are formed due to sinking of equatorial air that cools on 30 degrees near north and south. (HORSE LATITUDES)

b.Sub-Polar temperate low pressure belts are formed near the arctic and antarctic circles. Here the cold winds meet the warm westerlies formed at 60 degrees.

Answer 2

The Ring of Fire, Alpide Belt, and

The Mid-Atlantic

Ridge

.

The Ring of Fire: stretching from New Zealand, along the eastern edge of Asia, north across the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, and south along the coast of North and South America

Alpide Belt:

Stretching from

Javato

Sumatra through t

he

Himalayas, the

Mediterranean, and out into the

Atlantic, it includes the

Alps, the

Carpathians, the mountains of

Anatolia and

Iran, the

Hindu Kush, and the mountains of

Southeast Asia

The Mid-Atlantic

Ridge:

Between Africa and South America primarily

Answer 3

the major pressure belts of the earth are equitorial low pressure belt,sub-tropical high pressure belt,sub -polar low pressure belt

Answer 4

hadley cell,ferrel cell and polar cell