NAME: _______________________
DATE: _______________________
Hawaiian Islands Organizer ANSWERS
1. What is the name of the plate on which Hawaii sits? ___Pacific_______
2. In which direction does this plate move? ___Northwest______________
3. What is the name of the new volcano? ____Lo’ihi__________________
4. When will the new volcano break the surface of the ocean? ___________
____thousands of years from now__________________________________
5. What will the volcano look like when it emerges? __barren____________
6. What will the area surrounding the volcano look like in one hundred
years? _____a lush garden________
7. Why? _____spores and seeds blown by wind will grow in the rock,
erosion turns the lava into fertile soil _______________________________
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