What is plate tectonics and what does it have to do with the Ring of Fire?

Question

I need info on plate tectonics and I just want to know a little info on how it relates to the Ring of Fire

Answer 1

The website below will take you to a well-illustrated USGS pub on plate tectonics. It is called: This Dynamic Earth--the story of plate tectonics. By Kious and Tilling.
Because it is a government publication, it isn't copyrighted, but you should give appropriate credit if you reuse the figures, etc.

Volcanoes are not randomly distributed over the Earth's surface. Most are concentrated on the edges of continents, along island chains, or beneath the sea forming long mountain ranges. More than half of the world's active volcanoes above sea level encircle the Pacific Ocean to form the circum-Pacific "Ring of Fire." In the past 25 years, scientists have developed a theory -- called plate tectonics -- that explains the locations of volcanoes and their relationship to other large-scale geologic features.-From: Brantley, 1994, Volcanoes of the United States: USGS General Interest Publication.
The ring of fire is associated with convergent plate boundaries.

Answer 2

The ring of fire is basically the border between plates in the pacific(??) (this means the earths crust is broken into slabs) they collide and slip under each other and cause volcanoes, e-quakes etc) this results in many many volcanoes, hence the name ring of fire!

hope that helps

Answer 3

It has to do with the way the surface of the earth moves. the plates make up the hard surface of the earth.

The ring of fire is where there is alot of activity and magma comes up to the surface.

Answer 4

The Pacific plate(s) are subducting below the encroaching continental plates. So its destructive (Pacific plate being destroyed), typicaly has trenches (where the pacific falls away below the continental plate), and produces volcanoes on the continental plates as the light material melts and rises as magma (Andes)

Answer 5

Plate tectontics is the edge of the cheeks of my bum. The ring of fire has nothing to do with my cheeks of my bum, however rings of fire often come out of my bum hole.

Answer 6

look on the above sites since they are very useful and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ring_of_Fire should also help