SCIENCE

Assignment No. 1

Analysis and Conclusion

1. What is the Pacific Ring of Fire? Why is it named as such?

2. What kind of landforms can be found along the margins of the

Circum-Pacific Belt?

Answer:

1.) The Pacific Ring of Fire also referred to as the Circum-Pacific Belt, is a path
along the Pacific Ocean characterized by active volcanoes and frequent
earthquakes. The majority of Earth’s volcanoes and earthquakes take place along
the Ring of Fire.  It traces boundaries between several tectonic plates—including
the Pacific, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Indian-Australian, Nazca, North American, and
Philippine Plates. Seventy-five percent of Earth’s volcanoes—more than 450
volcanoes—are located along the Ring of Fire. Ninety percent of Earth’s
earthquakes occur along its path, including the planet’s most violent and
dramatic seismic events. The abundance of volcanoes and earthquakes along the
Ring of Fire is caused by the amount of movement of tectonic plates in the area.
Along much of the Ring of Fire, plates overlap at convergent boundaries called
subduction zones. That is, the plate that is underneath is pushed down, or sub
ducted, by the plate above.

Also, The Ring of Fire is home to the deepest ocean trench, called
the Mariana Trench. Located east of Guam, the 7-mile-deep Mariana Trench
formed when one tectonic place was pushed under another. Its characteristic is a
long horseshoe-shaped seismically active belt of earthquake epicenters,
volcanoes, and tectonic plate boundaries that fringes the Pacific basin. Pacific
Ring of Fire is called like that because before it is also called as Rim of Fire or
Circum-Pacific Belt. The reason why it is also called like that is because
earthquakes usually happens in heres and most of the volcanoes and mountain
ranges are located in here that’s why it is called the Pacific Ring of Fire because
there are too many magmas under every volcanoes.

2.) The Ring of Fire, also referred to as the Circum-Pacific Belt, is a path along the
Pacific Ocean characterized by active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes. The
majority of Earth's volcanoes and earthquakes take place along the Ring of Fire.
Also the “Ring of Fire” is a 40,000 km (25,000 mile) horseshoe-shaped basin that
is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs,
and volcanic belts and/or plate movements.