Question

Select the correct answers from the list.(2 points)
Scientists wondered how volcanoes could be located so far from tectonic plate boundaries until one proposed the idea of , where the magma is much hotter than the surrounding magma. These are and do not move with tectonic plates. They are responsible for the creation of island chains

Answer 1

The correct answers to fill in the blanks are "hotspots" and "stationary."

So the completed sentence would read:

Scientists wondered how volcanoes could be located so far from tectonic plate boundaries until one proposed the idea of **hotspots**, where the magma is much hotter than the surrounding magma. These are **stationary** and do not move with tectonic plates. They are responsible for the creation of island chains.