Science Explainer: The Pacific Ring of Fire, home to 452 volcanoes - Formative Staff | Laabri

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Mmuae Afoforo a Wobɛpaw:

magma

earthquakes

tectonic plates

hot spots

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Drag each characteristic to the corresponding type of volcano boundary.

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The Pacific Plate is cooling off at a faster rate.

There is a high concentration of hot spots along the Ring of Fire.

Tectonic plates have collided over many thousands of years.

Every volcano in the Ring of Fire is connected under the ocean in a single supervolcano.

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