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1. _____causes earthquakes
2. _____type of plate boundary that volcanic arches,
mountain ranges, and volcanic islands form at
3. _____ factories take water and heat it up and cool
it back down and put back in the water source
4. _____layer of gases that protect us from the sun’s
UV radiation
5.______moves lithospheric plates
Key Questions Volcanoes
1. Where do volcanoes form?
2. What is the Ring of Fire?
3. What is a hot spot?
4. What islands were formed from a hot spot?
1. Where do volcanoes form?
1 . Volcanoes form at convergent and divergent
tectonic plate boundaries.
2. What is the Ring of Fire?
• 2. Most volcanoes occur at the Ring of Fire which
are the boundaries that line the Pacific Ocean
Hotspots [This Dynamic Earth, USGS]
3. What is a hot spot?
• 3. A hot spot is a place on Earth’s surface that is
directly above a mantle plume(column of magma).
Hot Spot Animation
4. What islands were formed from a
hot spot?
• 4. The Hawaiian Islands
Varieties of Volcanoes Worksheet
• 1. Write the bulleted fact in
the box under the volcano it
describes
• 2. Use page 49/50 Types of
Volcanoes