A 'ring of fire' is a ring of ______ around the Pacific Ocean, which results from subduction of oceanic plates beneath lighter continental plates.

The correct answer is Volcanoes.The “Ring of Fire” is a string of underwater volcanoes and earthquake sites around the edges of the Pacific Ocean.The Ring of Fire is ALSO called the Circum-Pacific belt. The Ring of Fire is the result of plate tectonics.Much of the volcanic activity occurs along subduction zones, which are convergent plate boundaries where two tectonic plates come together.Most of the active volcanoes on Earth are located underwater, along the aptly named “Ring of Fire” in the Pacific Ocean.Made up of more than 450 volcanoes, the Ring of Fire stretches for nearly 40,250 kilometers, running in the shape of a horseshoe from the southern tip of South America, along the west coast of North America, across the Bering Strait, down through Japan, and into New Zealand. Tides are very long-period waves that move through the oceans in response to the forces EXERTED by the moon and SUN. Tides originate in the oceans and progress toward the coastlines where they appear as the regular rise and fall of the sea surface.Bushfires TEND to occur when light and heavy fuel loads in Eucalypt forests have dried out, usually FOLLOWING periods of low rainfall.