What is the Ring of Fire?

Question

What is the Ring of Fire?
What is in the Ring of Fire?
Does it have anything to do with plate tectonics?

Answer 1

Ring of Fire is the perimeter of the pacific ocean and it has everything to do with plate tectonics.
1. Pacific Ocean because at the Far East, it includes Japan's Mt. Fuji and down Below, the macronesia islands, Indonesia and so forth. At the West side, you have the West coast of Noth America.
2. Think of it as a circle = hence "Ring" of fire

Answer 2

This term comes from the fact that the Pacific Ocean is ringed by volcanoes, hence a "Ring of Fire", and yes it does have to do with plate tectonics. Around the rim there are subduction zones where the oceanic plates (there are several) are descending beneath continental plates, causing volcanism, earthquakes, and tsunami. The article posted at Wikipedia.org listed below is concise and understandable. Try it.

Answer 3

The ring of fire is actually the Pacific Rim: from west coast of Alaska south through the US and Mexico and South America then west over to Japan, China, Russia's east coast (Siberia/Kamchtka) back to Alaska.
What I describe is one big tectonic plate with the Japans a series of islands that are the top of mountain ranges where two plates hit.

Answer 4

I thought the ring of fire was the burning sensation that comes during childbirth when the baby's head is crowning.

But you are right. Is has to do with plate tectonics.

Answer 5

the ring of fire, is a ring of valcanoes that basicly sounds the boarder of the contentents.
yes it has to do with plate tectonics, cus the plates crack and lava comes out and they build valcanoes. =]

Answer 6

It's what Johnny Cash fell into once.