Skills lab; Mapping Earthquakes and Volcanoes

Guiding Question;

Is there a pattern in the locations of earthquakes and volcanoes?

I think that their might be ones that are sort of close together but in some places they are rely far apart. (in latitude and longitude)

Analyze and Conclude

1.

• How are earthquakes distributed on the map?

I think that most of the earthquakes are close to the volcanoes, and also they mostly happened around the "Ring of fire".

• Are they scattered evenly or concentrated in zones?

Some of the volcanoes and earthquakes are scattered all over the place, some off the land in the middle of the ocean and some on the land. Some are not even close to the 'ring of fire'.

2.

• How are volcanoes distributed on the map?

The volcanoes are mostly distributed around the Pacific plate and some are even around Europe and Asia. They are destroying the vegetation.

• Are they scattered evenly or in concentrated zones?

They are mostly around the ring and scattered around on and off land were I wouldn't expect them to be.

3.

• From your data, what can you infer about the relationship between earthquakes and volcanoes?

Most of the earthqaukes and volcanoes are near or mostly on top of the Pacific plate or the North American Plate.

4.

• Suppose you added the locations of additional earthquakes and volcanoes to your map. Would the overall pattern of earthquakes and volcanoes change? Explain in writing why you think the pattern would or would not change.

I don't think that the pattern would change because earthquakes and volcanoes happen for the same reason, plates transform (they slide past each other), plates converge (they overlap) and they also diverge (pull away from each other). When they transform, the magma can slowly start oozing out, when they converge they could make a volcano, and when they diverge, they can make a massive magma flow along the ocean floor and massive earthquake!!!