GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Along much of the Ring of Fire, plates overlap at convergent boundaries called subduction zones. That is, the plate that is underneath is pushed down, or subducted, by the plate above. As rock is subducted, it melts and becomes magma.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Ring of Fire is the result of plate tectonics. Much of the volcanic activity occurs along subduction zones, which are convergent plate boundaries where two tectonic plates come together.

Detailed explanation-3: -The East Pacific Rise is a site of major seafloor spreading in the Ring of Fire. The East Pacific Rise is located on the divergent boundary of the Pacific Plate and the Cocos Plate (west of Central America), the Nazca Plate (west of South America), and the Antarctic Plate.

Detailed explanation-4: -Option A-Pacific ocean is the correct answer as the Ring of Fire is also called the Circum Pacific belt. This belt goes around the Pacific basin. It is marked by volcanoes and earthquakes as most areas covered by the belt have convergent boundaries forming subduction zones.

Detailed explanation-5: -Destructive, or convergent, plate boundaries are where the tectonic plates are moving towards each other. Volcanoes form here in two settings where either oceanic plate descends below another oceanic plate or an oceanic plate descends below a continental plate.