What is the connection between volcanoes and plate tectonics?

Answer 1

Volcanoes form as a result of plate tectonics. When plates are pushing, pulling, and grinding they cause volcanoes. Magma that reaches the surface of the earth produces volcanoes where plates collide or spread apart.

Sources:

My science book and my great brain.

Answer 2

Volcanoes require a break in the lithosphere to allow the subsurface material - both gases and magma - to flow through to create volcanic activity. Tectonics provides these breaks. Where one tectonic plate subducts under another the fault tends to be a good place for magma to leak through and to form volcanoes - which is why the "ring of fire" around the Pacific has so many volcanoes. Most other volcanoes occur along tectonic boundaries.

Answer 3

Volcanoes occur at tectonic plate boundaries where magma rises from the mantle and erupts on the Earth's surface. This movement of material is driven by the heat and pressure within the Earth's interior, which is a key aspect of plate tectonics. The distribution of volcanoes around the world corresponds to the boundaries of the Earth's tectonic plates.

Answer 4

Tectonic plates shift, and rub together to create earthquakes.

Volcanoes erupt using magma that the plates float on, and the magma turns into lava.

Answer 5

Volcanoes are formed because of the movements of plate tectonics. See related questions below.

Answer 6

Almost all volcanoes are located on a plate boundary.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

yes