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What is the difference between an island arc and an island chain?
An island chain is a chain of islands that form in the middle of a plate. Example: Hawaii An island arc is a string of islands that form on a plate boundary. Example: Japan
What is an island chain called?
An island chain is called an archipelago. It is a group or chain of islands clustered together in a body of water, such as the ocean.
What are the two main ranges that form the cordilleran chain?
The Rockies and Andes form the Cordilleran chain!!
What is a chain of island called?
archipelago. i group of island together
What is the possessive noun for island?
The possessive form is island's.
What is the difference between an island arc and an island chain?
An island chain is a chain of islands that form in the middle of a plate. Example: Hawaii An island arc is a string of islands that form on a plate boundary. Example: Japan
Is it possible for a new island to form on the hawaiian island chain?
Yes. Currently a volcano named Loihi is building up off the coast of the big island. In a few hundred thousand years it will reach the ocean surface and form a new island.
What do geographers call such an an island chain?
Geographers call an island chain an Archipelago.
Is Hawaii an island or continent?
island chain
What is an island chain called?
An island chain is called an archipelago. It is a group or chain of islands clustered together in a body of water, such as the ocean.
What is the name of the Alaska island that form the longest chain?
The Aleutian Islands are the chain of rugged, volcanic islnads curving c.1,200 mi west from the tip of the Alaska Peninsula.
What are groups of volcanoes called?
If it is a single island, it is simply known as a volcanic island! If however it is a chain or string of separate islands then it may be a volcanic island arc (these form parallel to trenches at subduction zones) or a volcanic island chain (these form where a mantle plume creates a hotspot and may be in the centre of a tectonic plate. A good example would be the Hawaiian island chain). They can also form a cluster of islands (an archipelago) such as the Canary Islands (again formed by hotspot volcanism) in the Atlantic of the coast of Morocco.
What is the largest island in the Hawaiian chain?
The Island of Hawaii or the Big Island as it is known.
Which island chain is south of the island of Saint Vincent?
The Grenadines
What US state is an island chain?
Hawaii is actually a chain of volcanoes!
Is a chain of island in the south pacific?
Hawaii is a chain of islands in the Pacific.
What is the chain of island in the south Pacific?
The Solomon Islands is one such chain.
