Deep depression where subduction occurs. This process is common at convergent plate boundaries.
What is ocean trench
a crack or break in the Earth’s crust.
what is Fault
Region in the Pacific where 75% of all the world’s volcanoes are located, thus 90% of Earthquakes happen here.
What is ring of fire
a process by which oceanic plates dive beneath continental plates, often causing mountains to form on land.
What is subduction
Process by which magma wells up between oceanic plates and pushes the plates apart. This often makes islands and island chains.
What is she floor spreading.
forms when one tectonic plate subducts beneath another, creating a chain of volcanic islands.
What is volcanic island arc