EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -The Hawaiian Islands are volcanic in origin. Each island is made up of at least one primary volcano, although many islands are composites of more than one. The Big Island, for instance, is constructed of 5 major volcanoes: Kilauea, Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea, Hualalai and Kohala .

Detailed explanation-2: -The Hawaiian Islands are all classified as shield volcanoes. Hawaiian shield volcanoes are formed by lava flowing on the ocean floor and building layer upon layer into great volcanoes. The hot spot theory explains that magma from the upper mantle rises through a channel into a magma chamber called a hot spot.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Hawaiian Islands were formed by a volcanic hot spot, an upwelling plume of magma, that creates new islands as the Pacific Plate moves over it.

Detailed explanation-4: -Destructive plate boundary volcanoes This process is called subduction and creates distinctive types of volcanoes depending on the setting: ocean-ocean subduction produces an island-arc volcano.