The 'Ring of Fire', in the context of the large number of volcanoes, relates to which of the following:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Pacific Ocean
The Ring of Fire is a belt about 40,000 km long, shaped like a horseshoe, that runs round the edges of the Pacific Ocean: along the Andes, western North America, the Aleutians, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia and New Zealand. Here the Pacific plate and its neighbours meet and one plate sinks below another, so the belt has about three-quarters of the world’s active volcanoes and most of its earthquakes.