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Volcanoes generally form where the oceanic plate subducts under the continental plate.
If you think of the ocean floor as a conveyor belt running outwards in both directions from the centre. (New floor is created by material forced from below).
where it meets the continental plate it is driven underneath, causing great friction and the associated heat.
This heat will melt the rock and the pressure forces the molten rock to the surface.
This creates a volcano.
Other plate boundaries not associated with the ocean floor will either be convergent, (pushing towards each other) divergent, (pulling away from each other) or strike-slip.(rubbing up against each other).
These plate boundaries are likely to have earthquake zones as the pressures mount between them.
Volcanoes form along convergent plate boundaries where one plate moves beneath another (subduction) or at divergent plate boundaries where plates move apart. This occurs because the movement of plates causes magma to rise to the surface, resulting in volcanic activity. In contrast, transform plate boundaries, where plates slide past each other, do not create the conditions necessary for volcanoes to form.
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Where do most of earth volcanoes and earthquakes occur?
along plate boundaries
Volcanoes usually occur along what plate boundaries?
transform and divergent
Volcanoes most commonly form where?
volcanos mostly form on tectonic plate boundaries and hot stops
Where are earthquakes or volcanoes likely to occur?
Earthquakes are likely to occur along tectonic plate boundaries where there is movement and stress in the Earth's crust. Volcanoes are likely to occur at convergent plate boundaries, divergent plate boundaries, and hotspots where magma from the Earth's mantle reaches the surface.
What boudaries produces volcanoes?
Volcanoes are commonly found along tectonic plate boundaries, including convergent plate boundaries where one plate subducts under another, and divergent plate boundaries where plates move apart. Hotspots, where magma rises from deep within the Earth's mantle, can also create volcanic activity away from plate boundaries.
Where do most of earth volcanoes and earthquakes occur?
along plate boundaries
Where do earthquakes volcanoes and mountains occur along?
Along the tectonic plate boundaries.
What volcanoes are located are located along plate boundaries?
Which volcanoes are located at hot spots
Why do volcanoes form along plate boundaries?
Think of how pimples are formed.
What voncanoes are located along a diverging plate boundaries?
Submarine volcanoes.
Volcanoes usually occur along what plate boundaries?
transform and divergent
What happens along a plate boundary that leads to high occurrences of volcanoes?
Subduction happens along plate boundaries which pushes up magma which then creates volcanoes.
Why do so many of earths volcanoes form along plate boundaries?
Lava easily spews out of plate faults making volcanoes.
Volcanoes most commonly form where?
volcanos mostly form on tectonic plate boundaries and hot stops
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 does movement along plate boundaries cause?
Earthquakes, volcanoes to erupt, mountains, etc...
Where are earthquakes or volcanoes likely to occur?
Earthquakes are likely to occur along tectonic plate boundaries where there is movement and stress in the Earth's crust. Volcanoes are likely to occur at convergent plate boundaries, divergent plate boundaries, and hotspots where magma from the Earth's mantle reaches the surface.
