Earth Quakes and volcanoes usually occur near

fault lines. The reason of this is because fault lines

are where lave is pushed up to the surface and
where plates crash against each other causing
earth quakes. You can generally tell that there is a
fault line nearby if a volcano or an earthquake
occurs near your location. Taking the location of
the earthquakes and volcanoes into consideration,
you can judge where major fault lines are.
Especially along the pacific fault because volcano
and earthquakes are especially active on that fault.
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Earthquakes and Volcanoes are measured on a scale called
the Richter Scale. The Richter Scale is a scale that starts at
zero and can go on infinitely, although the highest we have
ever recorded is 10.0. Most earthquakes that are 2.0 and
under we cant even feel. The numbers in the scale include
whole numbers, and only one decimal point. For example, 4.7
is part of the Richter scale, but 5.68 isn't because it has a
second decimal point. Each whole number on the scale is
thirty one times stronger the the previous number.

Eight on the Richter Scale

Four on the Richter Scale

The Chemical composition of magma affects plate
tectonics and the characteristics of volcanoes because
the different types of rocks and minerals that compose
the magma give it different properties, like magma that
has rock that has a low melting point will subsequently
be less viscous and a lot cooler. Magma affects plate
tectonics because more and more crust is being
created every second from asthenosphere coming up
through the crust, so plates are getting larger and some
plates are getting smaller from the crust being forced
downward and being melted into magma.
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 Volcanoes effect the
hydrosphere because
when they erupt, they
add a small amount
more of H2O into the
atmosphere and when
magma enters the
water, the water
evaporates, goes into
the atmosphere, and
affect the atmosphere also. The volcanoes
the minerals in the erupting emit a lot
of gases into the atmosphere,
magma go like intoCO2.
the They also put a lot of
small particulates water.
into the atmosphere which can interact with
Volcanoes
the biosphere by suffocating animals and blocking out the sun
from plants. The biosphere reacts with the volcanoes quickly
and violently. The last thing that volcanoes interact with the
world is human activity by blocking planes, and covering
buildings and cars in ash and molten lava.