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Describe the three main ways that volcanoes are created.

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There are three main places where volcanoes originate: Hot spots, Divergent plate boundaries (such as rifts and mid-ocean ridges), and. Convergent plate boundaries (subduction zones)

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1.Divergent boundaries (crust moves apart, magma fills in)

2.Convergent boundaries (magma fills when one plate goes beneath another)

3.Hot spots (a large magma plume rises from mantle)

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