Use the Roadside Guide of Hawaii (aka your smaller textbook) to answer questions 1-7.
1. What is a hot spot?
2. Is the Hawaiian hot spot the only hot spot?
3. Where is the Hawaiian hot spot currently?
4. Where is the magma that forms the Hawaiian volcano generated?
5. What is a mantle plume?
6. Where does the mantle plume originate?
7. Why does a chain of individual islands form?
Use these Web pages Hot Spots and Formation of the Hawaiian Islands to answer the remaining questions.
8. Name several other Pacific archipelagos formed by hot spots.
9. Give the age of the oldest volcanoes formed by the Hawaiian Hot Spot.
10. Give the direction of spreading for the Pacific Plate from 80-43 million years ago.
11. Contrast the ages and the sizes of the Hawaiian Islands in relation to the distance from the hot spot
12. Explain why Hawaiian volcanoes become smaller as they get older.
13. Give the name of the chain of submerged Hawaii volcanoes.
14. Give the names and ages of the youngest Hawaiian volcanoes, from Kilauea to Kauai.
15. How old is Midway atoll?
16. How old is the bend in the chain of volcanoes?(Also see page 3 of book)
17. Explain why the data points on the graph of Hawaiian volcano ages vs distance from Kilauea form a relatively straight line.