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What kind of force is volcanic activity that adds to existing land and forms new islands?
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What is the the main force behind earthquake and volcanic activity?
Our Tectonic plates shifting and moving around.
What is a force or material that causes a change in Earth's surface?
Earthquakes or volcanic activity can change the surface of the Earth.
What is a island?
An island is a landmass that is surrounded by water on all sides. Islands can vary in size from small rocky outcrops to large landmasses like Greenland or Australia. They are formed through various geological processes like volcanic activity, erosion, or deposition of sediment.
What island is?
A small piece of land surrounded on all sides by water. Islands can be found in the ocean and in lakes. Islands can be formed by splitting off from the mainland or by a disruptive force such as a volcanic eruption or earthquake.
What force formed these volcanic mountains?
lava formed the volcanic mountains
How did the Hawaiian Islands form?
Volcanoes - It is called a hot spot and as the earths crust moves over the spot, volcanoes form and in this case, created the chain of islands.They formed from a hot spot in earths crustThe Hawiian Islands are the tops of huge undersea volcanoes.The way the islands have formed, although far away from any fault, the area is a volcanic hot-spot. Back a couple million years, the crust beneath was thinning and rising. A series of undersea volcanic eruptions force volcanic material upwards, making the islands. The thinning of the crust, literally, moves southward to make other islands.It has to do wih tectonic plates
What does it indicate about the island if the volcanoes are currently active?
Volcanic islands tend to owe their existence to the volcano. The same force that burns and buries the life that settles on them is the same force that created land to rise out of the sea in the first place. Without volcanic activity to continually add land to the islands, eventually erosion and other influences will wear the islands down to submerge them entirely under the sea. In the case of Hawaii, for instance, a fixed point in the mantle below the Pacific Plate is responsible for heating through the crust to create the Hawaiian volcanoes. The Pacific plate moves over this hot spot, so gradually a line of volcanoes are punched through the sea floor and older volcanoes are moved away from the hot spot. Several lumps under the sea to the northwest of the current northwesternmost island in the chain are all that remain of what were once Hawaiian islands.
What does the VEI stand for?
It could stand for Volcanic Explosive Index. I describes the force of a volcanic explosion
How mountains were made?
Mountain were made by huge segments of the earth's crust also know as tectonic plate. Over millions of year of volcanic activity under the earths crust forced these plates to shift. When to plates meet, the force of the volcanic pressure and the to plates may be pushed upward and create mountains.
A characteristic of lava that determines the force of a volcanic eruption is?
Viscosity.
A force activity designator identifies a command according to their?
A Force Activity Designator (FAD) identifies a command according to their ?
Identify and explain the 3 factors that effect the force of a volcanic eruption?
The silica content effects the force of a volcanic eruption because magma with a lot of silica is thicker and magma with less silica is thinner. The amount of dissolved gases in magma effects the force of a volcanic eruption because the less gas in the magma, the less pressure will be inside the volcano. The temperature of the magma effects the force of a volcanic eruption because the hotter the magma, the more runny it is.
