Question: Describe the cause(s) for the ring of fire?
qaPairs: question: What is the general cause for the ring of fire?
answer: the movement and collisions of lithospheric plates
plate tectonics
question: What is the cause for the ring of fire on the eastern section?
answer: the Nazca Plate and the Cocos Plate being subducted beneath the westward-moving South American Plate
Cocos Plate is being subducted beneath the Caribbean Plate
the Pacific Plate and the small Juan de Fuca Plate are being subducted beneath the North American Plate
question: What is the cause for the ring of fire on the northern section?
answer: Pacific Plate is being subducted along the Kamchatka Peninsula arcs
Pacific Plate is being subducted beneath the Aleutian Islands arc
question: What is the cause for the ring of fire on the southern section?
answer: smaller tectonic plates in collision with the Pacific Plate from the Mariana Islands, the Philippines, Bougainville, Tonga, and New Zealand