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What does it suggest that the Hawaiian Islands get progressively older and smaller as you move to the northwest?
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the plate over the hawaiian hot spot has been moving north west.
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Why do the hawaiian islands get smaller when they move northwest?
The Hawaiian islands are made from volcanic eruptions. The active volcanoes in the circle of fire are to the south of Hawaii.
Why the hawaiian islands get smaller as they get older?
Erosion
Are the Hawaiian Islands bigger than Jamaica?
Jamaica is slightly larger than the largest of the Hawaiian islands, but smaller than the combined total of Hawaii.
How many islands incorporate the Hawaiian Islands?
The Hawaiian Islands include eight major islands: Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, Niihau, and Kahoolawe. It also includes many smaller islets, atolls, and underwater seamounts.
Explain why the southeastern islands in the Hawaiian Island chain contain active volcanoes and are larger while the northwestern islands are older smaller and have extinct volcanoes?
This is happening because of plate tectonics. The Pacific Plate is moving a few cenitmeters each year in a northwest direction. There is a hot spot under the Pacific plate that keeps feeding or creating the islands, as the plate moves, new islands are being formed in the southeast, at the older islands in the northwest are eroding away.
How many island s are there in the state of Hawaii?
The Hawaiian islands are the islands of your nightmares! You enter it ........... Heeheehee! Just jockin'. There are 8 main ones.
What's an example of an area that is smaller than the a continent and is completely surrounded by water?
Are you talking about an island? (e.g. Hawaiian Islands)
This island is northwest of Trinidad and tobago?
The island of Grenada is northwest of Trinidad and Tobago. Grenada is composed of the main island and six smaller islands.
How many islands are in the Hawaiian archipelago?
Eight. Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, Molokai, Kauai, Lanai, Niihau, and Kohoolawe, plus a bunch of smaller inlets and reefs and stuff
How many smaller islands are there in Trinidad?
Besides the two main islands there are 21 smaller Islands .
Where is the British isles Éire?
Éire is the Irish language name for Ireland. The British Isles refers to Britain and Ireland and their own smaller islands. They are off the northwest of mainland Europe.
What islands include New Zealand and twenty five thousand smaller islands?
Q - What islands include New Zealand and twenty five thousand smaller islands? A - The Pacific Islands.
