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Is Hawaii considered a hot spot for volcanic activity because it does not lie on the plate boundaries?
Yes. --Hawaii moves with the Pacific Plate, and (after thousands of years) the volcanoes move away from the hot spot. As a result, there is a long chain of extinct volcanoes behind the Big Island
If the north American plate moves at an average rate of 3 cm per year what distance has it moved over the last 50 million years?
3 cm/y X 50x106 years = 150,000,000 cm (1,500 km).
In California the pacific plate slides past the North American plate. If the pacific plate is moving at a speed of 5 centimeters per year how long will it take for the plate to travel 100 meters?
There are 100 centimeters in a meter. Thus 100 meters is 10000 centimeters 10000 divided by 5 centimeters per year = Two Thousand Years
What plate does Hawaii sit on?
Actually, the Hawaiian Islands were not formed by plates colliding together. They are in fact in the middle of the Pacific plate. They were formed by a hot spot. A hot spot is a spot in the inside of a plate and magma rises up to the surface and becomes a volcano. The reason why there are multiple islands is because the Pacific Plate is moving. Once an island moves completely away from the hot spot it becomes an extinct volcano.
What boundaries was formed about 25 million years ago when the Pacific plate met the North American plate?
Transform boundary
A plate moves 45 mm per year how far will the plate move in 100 years?
4,500 mm = 4.5 metres
How long does it take for plate tectonics to move?
It moves 2 cm per year
What speed is the pacific plate moving?
centi meters every 1000,000 years
Why mars need to move very fast?
Mars moves at almost the same speed as it did a million years ago, a very average speed for planets in the solar system, which keeps it nicely in its orbit.
Is Hawaii considered a hot spot for volcanic activity because it does not lie on the plate boundaries?
Yes. --Hawaii moves with the Pacific Plate, and (after thousands of years) the volcanoes move away from the hot spot. As a result, there is a long chain of extinct volcanoes behind the Big Island
If the north American plate moves at an average rate of 3 cm per year what distance has it moved over the last 50 million years?
3 cm/y X 50x106 years = 150,000,000 cm (1,500 km).
In California the pacific plate slides past the North American plate. If the pacific plate is moving at a speed of 5 centimeters per year how long will it take for the plate to travel 100 meters?
There are 100 centimeters in a meter. Thus 100 meters is 10000 centimeters 10000 divided by 5 centimeters per year = Two Thousand Years
How old is the Pacific plate?
The pacific Plate is the oldest plate on the planet and is over 600 billions years old
Kileuea on tectonic plates or several plates?
Kilauea, the volcano is on one plate, the pacific plate, and it is right in the middle. The only reason the Hawaiian archipelago is there is because of a hot spot. There is pressure in the middle of the plate which causes magma to shoot up out of the top even though it is nowhere near a plate boundary. The reason that volcanoes become dormant is because over the years, the pacific plate moves over the hot spot, causing new volcanoes to form, therefore forming the Hawaiian islands.
If a plate moves 4 centimeters per year how many kilometers would it move in 1 million years?
4 cm * 1,000,000 y = 4000,000 cm4000,000 /100 = 40,000 m40,000 m / 1000 = 40 km
Which outer planet moves around the sun the fastest?
The outer planets are usually defined as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The innermost of those, Jupiter, moves around the sun the fastest. The speed of planet is a function the size of its orbit only -- mass doesn't matter, as figured out by Kepler about 500 years ago. Thus Mercury, the innermost of all planets, has the greatest orbital speed (87.96 Earth days for an orbit), and Neptune the slowest (164.81 Earth years). If you want to include Pluto, then it has the greatest orbital period (247.7 earth years)
What are the plate boundaries that caused the Appalachian mountains?
the Atlantic plate sliding under the north American plate over 300 million years ago
