Formation of the Hawaiian Islands Quiz

Tectonic plates:

Question Answer Choices comprise a static layer on Earth's upper crust make up the outer crust of the Earth's surface are hot spots found in volcanoes are glacial mountains

The process of forming the Hawaiian Islands took:

Question Answer Choices millions of years thousands of years decades a few volcanic eruptions

The Hawaiian Islands were, and are still being formed by:

Question Answer Choices movement of glacial rivers vocanic eruptions both above and below sea level erosion cause by waves upon the seashore the tides of the Pacific Ocean

The Hawaiian Islands are part of a 1,500 mile long

Question Answer Choices archipeligo of islands, shoals, and semounts underwater jet stream coral reefs and sand bars underwater gulf stream from Australia to Hawaii

The islands that we know of as the Hawaiian Islands are just a small part of the

Question Answer Choices Pacific Ridge of the San Juan Mountain Range Pacific Ridge of the Emperor Seamount Chain Hawaiian Ridge of the Emperor Chain Pacific Ridge of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Ridge

The Hawaiian Islands resulted from the eruptions of a volcano that was formed:

Question Answer Choices by a hot spot that formed as two of the tectonic plates clashed by a river running under the Pacific Plate bt a hot spot in the middle of the Pacific plate by a seafloor fault formed by the Pacific Glacier