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GCSE | AQA | The Challenge of Natural Nazards | The global distribution of volcanoes and earthquakes

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Plate tectonics

Why do tectonic plates move?

The distribution of volcanoes and earthquakes

Destructive plate margins

Constructive plate margins

Conservative plate margins

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The global distribution of volcanoes and earthquakes

The map below shows the global distribution of volcanoes and major earthquakes.

The distribution of volcanoes and earthquakes is not random. Volcanoes and earthquakes occur:

in narrow bands that coincide with plate margins
on both land and sea
at volcanic hot spots

Most of the Earth’s volcanoes and earthquakes occur around the edge of the Pacific Ocean and form the Pacific Ring of Fire.

Earthquakes occur along conservative, constructive and destructive plate margins.

Volcanoes occur along constructive and destructive plate margins.

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