Answer: Most of the world's volcanoes are found around the edges of tectonic plates, both on land and in the oceans. On land, volcanoes form when one tectonic plate moves under another. Usually a thin, heavy oceanic plate subducts, or moves under, a thicker continental plate.
The Sahara Desert blankets nearly all of Mauritania, Western Sahara, Algeria, Libya<span>, </span>Egypt<span> and </span>Niger<span>; the southern half of </span>Tunisia<span>; and the northern parts of </span>Mali<span>, Chad and Sudan.</span>
The geography of East Asia is described as mountainous. An example is the geography of west and north China. It is usually dominated with mountains, steppe lands, plateaus, and deserts. I hope my answer has come to your help. God bless and have a nice day ahead!
Answer:
on land but close to oceans
Explanation:
A boundary between an oceanic plate and a continental plate will be near a coastline., not "far from the coast" or "in the middle of oceans."
Often, mountains are also near that boundary, but mountains may also exist elsewhere, so "anywhere there are mountains" is not an apt description.
The best choice is "on land but close to oceans."
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<em>Additional comment</em>
The 2011 Tohoku earthquake near Japan was offshore by 67 km. It came from the subduction zone where the Pacific plate dives beneath the Eurasian plate. It is an example of a plate boundary quake that occurred offshore, rather than on land.
