The document discusses the Ring of Fire, a horseshoe-shaped zone around the Pacific Ocean characterized by active volcanoes and earthquakes. It notes that the Ring of Fire contains over 450 volcanoes, including Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Pinatubo, and is home to 75% of the world's active volcanoes. Additionally, 90% of the world's earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire, including the 1989 San Francisco earthquake. The Ring of Fire formed as a result of tectonic plate movements and is affected by 4 continents and 8 tectonic plates that border the Pacific Ocean.

1. What is the Ring of Fire
 A zone along the edge of Pacific Ocean that has
many Volcanoes and Earthquakes.( Source 2)
 The horseshoe shaped belt stretches about
25,000 miles from New Zealand northwest to the
Philippines, northeast to Japan, east to Alaska,
and South to Oregon, California, Mexico, and the
Andes Mountains of South America.( Source 2)
 It is a large ring of Stratovolcanoes circling the
Pacific Ocean.( Source 3)

2. The Ring of Fire

3. How many Volcanoes and
Earthquakes are in the Ring of
Fire?
 About 350 historically active Volcanoes in
the Ring of Fire.( Source 2)
 Home to 452 Volcanoes and 75% of
worlds active and dormant Volcanoes.
( Source 1)
 90% of the worlds earthquakes are on the
Ring of Fire.( Source 1)
 89% of worlds largest earthquakes
happen along Ring of Fire.( Source 1)

4. How was the Ring of Fire made?
 It is associated with a nearly continuous
series of oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs,
and volcanic belts, and/or plate
movements.( Source 1)

5. What is affected because of the
Ring of Fire?
 4 Continents are affected because of the
Ring of Fire ( Asia, Oceania, North
America, and South America.) ( Source 1)
 8 Tectonic Plates are affected ( Pacific
plate, Cocos plate, Nazca plate, Philippine
plate, North American plate, Eurasian
plate, Indo-Australia, and South American
plate.) ( Source 2)

6. What is the best known dormant
Volcanoes in the Ring of Fire?
 Top 5 most known Dormant Volcanoes in
Ring of Fire are…. ( Source 4)
 1: MT. Rainier
 2: MT. Fuji
 3: MT. Hood
 4: MT. Shasta
 5: MT. Edgecumbe

7. Are the Volcanoes in the Hawaiian
Islands part of the Ring of Fire?
 Mona Loa and Kilauea in the Hawaiian
Islands are not part of the Ring of Fire.
( Source 2)

8. What are some examples of
Volcanoes or Earthquakes that
are on the Ring of Fire
 Some examples are……

9. Mt. St. Helens
 Mt. St. Helens is a Volcano that is part of the
Ring of Fire that erupted in 1980.( Source 1)

10. The San Francisco earthquake of
1989.
 The San Francisco earthquake of 1989 is
part of Ring of Fire.( Source 1)

11. Mt. Popocatepetl
 Popocatepetl is a Volcano in Mexico that is part
of Ring of Fire that last erupted in 2012 it is
ongoing.( Source 1)

12. Mt. Fuji
 Mt. Fuji is a Volcano in Japan that’s part of
the Ring of Fire it last erupted in 1707-08.
( Source 1)

13. Mt. Pinatubo
 Mt. Pinatubo is a Volcano in Indonesia and part
of Ring of Fire and it last erupted in 1991.
( Source 1)

14. Mayon Volcano
 Mayon Volcano is part of the Ring of Fire it last
erupted in 2010 it is in the Philippines.( Source1)

15. Mt. Edziza
 Mt. Edziza is a volcano in British Columbia,
Canada that is part of the Ring of Fire it last
erupted in 1340 BP.( Source 1)

16. Chile
 Chile ( located in South America and is
part of Ring of Fire) holds the record for
the largest earthquake ever recorded in
1960 at 9.5.( Source 1)

17. My Graph
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18. Bibliography
 Source 1: Wikimedia Foundation, INC.
(March 19 2012) The Pacific Ring of Fire.
Wikipedia. March 19 2012. <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ring_of_Fir
>
 Source 2: World Book, INC. (2005) World
Book encyclopedia 2005 edition.
Chicago,Illinois: World Book, INC.
 Source 3: BrainPOP. (1999-2012).
Volcanoes. BrainPop. (March 19 2012). <
http://www.brainpop.com/>
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19. Bibliography (continued...)
 Source 4: Yahoo! (2012) What are the top
5 most known dormant volcanoes in the
ring of fire? Yahoo! Answers. (March 19
2012). <http://answers.yahoo.com/>
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20. My Experiment
Question:
Would the area surrounding Mt. Pinatubo or
the Mayon Volcano be most effected by
one volcanic eruption?

21. Hypothesis
 I think that the Mayon Volcano would be
most effected because that the volcano is
just going up like a roof and it has a lot of
little trenches that would help the lava
flow through them like streams and it
would get to the towns quicker than it
would to Mt. Pinatubo.
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22. Materials
 2 5lb air dry modeling clay
 2 Gatorade bottles
 2 cookie pans
 Vinegar
 Baking Soda
 2 measuring cups
 Dawn dishwashing detergent
 Monopoly houses and hotels
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23. Materials (continued...)
 a funnel
 a tablespoon
 warm tap water
 red food coloring
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24. Procedure
 1. Place the empty Gatorade bottle on the
cookie pan,
 2. Place the air dry clay around the
Gatorade bottle
 3. Smooth out the clay to look like a
replica of the volcano being compared.
 4. Repeat steps 1-3 once more
 5. Pick one of the volcanoes made to
experiment on first
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25. Procedure (continued....)
 6. Pour 3/5 of a cup of vinegar in one of
the measuring cups
 7. Pour 1 cup of warm water in the other
measuring cup
 8. Put 5 drops of red food coloring in the
warm water
 9. Pour 1/2 of the water in the bottle
 10. Pour 2 drops of dishwashing detergent
in the bottle
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26. Procedure (continued...)
 11. Pour all 3/5 of the vinegar in the bottle
 12. Scoop 1 tablespoon of baking soda
 13. Place the 1 scoop in the bottle
 14. Watch and enjoy
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27. Variables
– Controlled Variables:
 Type of Clay
 Type/amount used of Baking soda
 Type/amount used of vineagar
 Type/amount used of dishwashing detergent
 Type of center for volcano
 Type/amount of food coloring
– Independent Variables:
 Size of Volcano
 Shape of Volcano
 Number of houses at base of volcano
– Dependent Variables:
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28. Conclusion
 My hypothesis was wrong I thought that
the Mayon Volcano would do more
damage because of the trenches in the
area surrounding it. But it didn’t. The
reason that Mt. Pinatubo did more
damage is because that the mouth of Mt.
Pinatubo is wider and would allow more
lava to be released to the open area.
Another reason is that Mt. Pinatubo on its
eruption is that the lava poured down on
all fours of the volcano. 28
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29. Conclusion (continued...)
 Also that since Mt. Pinatubo is smaller and
closer to the ground the lava would flow
faster from a smaller thing to the ground.
I would change the fact to use
dishwashing detergent and the volcanoes
that are being compared.
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30. My Experiment
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