Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
______ belt is known as the “Ring of Fire”.
Options
Circum - Pacific
Mid-Atlantic
Mid - Continental
Antarctic
Advertisements
Solution
Circum - Pacific belt is known as the “Ring of Fire”.
APPEARS IN
RELATED QUESTIONS
What are ‘Volcanoes’?
What is the following:
Spine or plug
What is the following:
Mud volcanoes
Distinguish between the following pairs of terms associated with the crustal movement of the earth:
Tilted Block mountains and Lifted Block mountains
Answer the following:
Some volcanoes erupt explosively.
Answer the following:
Some volcanoes develop parasitic cones.
Give one word for the following :
The region where there are highest number of geysers and hot springs.
How the theory of plate tectonics has explained the formation of mountains like Himalaya or Alps and of the volcanic islands.
Assertion (A): The Pacific Ocean includes two thirds of the world’s volcanoes.
Reason (R): The boundary along the Eastern and Western coast areas of the Pacific Ocean is known as the Pacific Ring of Fire.
The upper part of the earth’s crust ______.
