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Tom is marking the locations of active volcanos on a world map. Explain how the locations of the volcanos are related to the Earth's plates.

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They often occur where the plates meet and are thrust together.

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User Thomas Kimber
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When plates move, they can move 3 different ways, i forgot those ways, but one of them is when one plate moves above another, creating a
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So overtime a volcano forms, that is part of the answer
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