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The Pacific Ring of Fire is named so because of it's known ring-shaped pattern of Volcanoes. This is all due in part to merging tectonic plates, all resulting in oceanic Volcanoes. It does deserve the name "Ring of Fire" Because of the fact that the volcanoes shoot out fire hot magma, and all of them are arranged in a ring shape around the tectonic plate boundaries.
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on land but close to oceans
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Earthquakes occur as a result of collisions along oceanic-continental convergent boundaries.
Majority of the earthquakes occur alongside the Ring of Fire of the Pacific Ocean. The Ring of Fire is found in the basin which is a land area found close to the coastlines of the ocean. This validates its occurrence on land but close to the oceans.
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The Earth has different compositional and mechanical layers. Compositional layers are determined by their components, while mechanical layers are determined by their physical properties. The outermost solid layer of a rocky planet or natural satellite. ... The Earth has an outer core (liquid) and an inner core (solid).
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Norman Borlaug was an Iowa farm boy and a high school athlete.
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- He joined the University of Minnesota with the aim of becoming an athletic coach and science teacher. He was a good college wrestler. He helped his coach and David Bartelma bring wrestling in high school level in Minnesota.
- Throughout his life Norman Borlaug promoted human welfare, as a spokesman and advocate for the disadvantaged people.
- As he gained prominence in the years after the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, he became a voice of the impoverished. He never retired, instead continued his humanitarian endeavors until his death at age 95.
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mark brainliest
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Nonrenewable energy resources, like coal, nuclear, oil, and natural gas, are available in limited supplies. This is usually due to the long time it takes for them to be replenished. Renewable resources are replenished naturally and over relatively short periods of time.
