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The weekly geography quiz

GEOQUIZ: What is the Ring of Fire?

Answer: The Pacific Ocean’s seismically active U-shaped area, punctuated by volcanoes and earthquakes and stretching nearly 25,000 miles. It runs along the Pacific coasts of the Americas and island arcs in the far western Pacific Ocean, such as Tonga, New Hebrides, Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan and the Kuril Islands.

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