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An area with many volcanoes that includes the western borders of South, Central, and North America, the southern border of Alaska, and the eastern border of Japan is often called the Ring of Fire. Why did so many volcanoes form in these areas?

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The volcanoes and earthquakes that are along the ring of fire are caused by the amount of movement of tectonic plates in the area. Plates overlap at convergent boundaries called subduction zones. As rock is subducted, it melts and becomes magma.

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The tectonic plates move so often then it creates many
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