The Ring Of Fire is a location where there is a lot of volcanoes because a lot of tectonic plates that meet in that region. It's called the Ring Of Fire because there are a lot of volcanoes that shoot out fire and lava. The chain of volcanoes runs along north and south and crosses over Aleutian island in Alaska and runs down the eastern part of Asia. There is converging, diverging, and transforming in the Ring Of Fire. The Ring Of Fire was made from tectonic plates slamming against each other. About 75% of Earth's active and dormant land volcanoes are located in the Ring Of Fire. The Ring Of Fire is a 25,000 mile horseshoe of volcanoes in the ocean and land. About 90% of all earthquakes happen along the Ring Of Fire.