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 _______________________________