How Plates Affect Our Planet: Volcanoes
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This text is provided courtesy of OLogy, the American Museum of Natural History’s website for kids.
The Ring of Fire is a large circle of explosive volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean. The circle is formed by the subduction of the Pacific Plate and some smaller plates under surrounding plates.
Some mountains are made of solid rock, like the Rocky Mountains or the Swiss Alps. But some mountains are actually volcanoes.
Volcanoes are vents, or openings in the earth's crust, that release ash, gases and steam, and hot liquid rock called lava. When the lava cools...
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