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Are the hawaiian islands formed at a subduction boundary?
Not. The Hawaiian Islands are formed at a hot spot.
Is the formation of the Hawaiian Islands is one example of volcanoes forming over a hot spot?
Yes. The Hawaiian Islands were formed by hot spot volcanoes.
What does it suggest that the Hawaiian Islands get progressively older and smaller as you move to the northwest?
the plate over the hawaiian hot spot has been moving north west.
How did the hot spot create the Hawaiian islands?
There is a hot spot under the islands that keeps burning a hole in the same spot even thought the plate is moving. Hence the chain of islands.
How did the hot spot created the hawaiian island?
There is a hot spot under the islands that keeps burning a hole in the same spot even thought the plate is moving. Hence the chain of islands.
The formation of the hawaiian islands is an example of what?
this is called primary succesion
Are the Hawaiian Islands located above a subduction zone?
No. The Hawaiian islands are over a hot spot and are nowhere near any plate boundaries.
Why do some Hawaiian islands have active volcanoes and some don't?
The Hawaiian Islands are formed by volcanic activity from the Hawaiian hot spot. This hot spot causes magma to rise to the surface, creating new landmasses. The islands that currently have active volcanoes are located over the hot spot, while the older islands have moved away from it, causing their volcanoes to become dormant.
How were Hawaiin islands created?
The Hawaiian Islands were created when molten material moved over a hot spot.
What chain of islands are formed because of a hot spot?
A Hot spot is stationary in time and burns though the solid lithosphere creating an island through volcanic eruptions. The lithosphere is separated into plates that move around so if a hot spot occurs under an oceanic plate it forms a island and as the plate moves (and the hot spot does not) it forms a chain of islands (as the plate moves over the hot spot). This is how the Hawaiian chain is formed.
Which of the hawaiian islands is the oldest- the island directly over the hot spot or the island that is farhest from the hot spot?
the youldest island
Why are many of the Hawaiian islands volcanoes extinct?
Due to plate techtonics, most of the Hawaiian Islands have been moved away from the "hot spot" in the earth's crust that is slowly extruding new islands. The big Island of Hawaii is the current location of that hot spot.
