MULTIPLE CHOICEHow is hot-spot volcanism different from traditional volcanism?ABсDIt causes island chains to develop after a series of thousands of eruptions.It occurs in the middle of a tectonic plate rather than at the boundary.The volcanoes caused by it are much larger and erupt more often.Hot-spot volcanoes are capable of creating seamounts below the ocean surface.

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Hot-spot volcanism:

According to National Geographic Society HotSpot volcanism is an unique formation of volcanoes that may not occur by the result of the plate tectonics movement and may not occur at plate boundaries.
These type volcanos may occur at the hot centers of the mentle plumes.
Most of volcanoes are formed underground surface of the water bodies.
It may created by a narrow steam of hot mentle rises up derived from the deep inside the earth surface and melts a hole in the plate in order to move upward the particles of melton megma.
For Example: There is a result of hotspot volcanos that are identified by the scientists nearby the plate of Giant Pracific Plate.

Traditional volcanos:

It refers to a rapture that is formed in the curst of a planetary mass object.
In geology these types of volcanoes are formed at the divergent and convergent boundaries of plate tectonics and most of them are occurs in underneath the water.
For Example: Volcanos that are formed at the crust of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and it may result in a convergent boundaries and those are occurs due to cause of the convergent boundaries of plate tectonics which are found in the Pracific Ring of Fire.