Explain how hot spots created the Hawaiian Islands?

Answer 1

Magma boiled up through the ocean and when it cooled it created rock. This kept happening until overtime an island had been built. There are multiple islands because of plate tectonics, over time the earths crust shifted in relation to the hot spot, so the magma boiled up on a different spot.

Answer 2

Magma rises through a gap in the crust onto the ocean floor, cools, and hardens. This procedure repeatedly happens. Once there is a island with a volcano on it, the magma fills the magma chamber inside the hollow volcano, pressure builds, and eventually bursts, then the lava (magma above ground) cools and hardens, creating new land. Then the crust shifts, but the hot spot does not, so the island shifts over and the hot spot continues to spew magma/lava in its origanal spot, even though it is on a new part of the sea floor.

Answer 3

The Hawaii hotspot is a volcanic hotspot located near the namesake Hawaiian Islands, in the northern Pacific Ocean. One of the most well-known and heavily studied hotspots in the world,[1][2] the Hawaii plume is responsible for the creation of the Hawaiian - Emperor seamount chain, an over 5,800 kilometres (3,600 mi) long chain of volcanoes, four of which are active, two of which are dormant, and more than 123 of which are extinct, many having since been ground beneath the waves by erosion as seamounts and atolls. The chain extends from south of the island of Hawaiʻi to the edge of the Aleutian Trench, near the eastern edge of Russia. While most volcanoes are created by geological activity at tectonic plate boundaries, the Hawaii hotspot is located far from nearby plate boundaries; the classic hotspot theory, first proposed in 1963 by John Tuzo Wilson, proposes that a single, fixed mantle plume builds volcanoes that then, cut off from their source by the movement of the Pacific Plate, become increasingly inactive and eventually erode below sea level over millions of years. According to this theory, the nearly 60° bend separating the Emperor and Hawaiian segments of the chain was caused by a sudden shift in the movement of the Pacific Plate. In 2003, fresh investigations of this irregularity led to the proposal of a mobile hotspot theory, suggesting that hotspots are mobile, not fixed, and that the 47 million year old bend was caused by a shift in the hotspot's motion rather than the plate's.

Answer 4

The Hawaiian Islands were formed as the Pacific tectonic plate drifted over a hot spot.

Answer 5

After it erupts from the volcano, it cools and froms new land.