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Geography Worksheet - Volcanoes And Plate Tectonics

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Volcanoes and Plate Tectonics

Answer the following questions.

1. What is a volcano? ______________________________________________

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2. When magma reaches the Earth’s surface, it is called ___________________

3. What is the Ring of Fire? _________________________________________

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4. Where do most volcanoes form? ___________________________________

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5. Describe how volcanoes form along the mid-ocean ridges. _______________

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6. How does subduction at colliding plate boundaries lead to the formation of

volcanoes? _____________________________________________________

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7. Volcanoes at boundaries where two oceanic plates collide create a string of

islands called an ________________________________________________

Geography Worksheet - Volcanoes And Plate Tectonics