Hotspot volocanoes

Question 1

Hotspot volcanoes
These occur over

Answer 1

stationary magma plumes (columns of rising magma) in the asthenosphere

(zone of Earth’s mantle lying beneath the lithosphere and believed to be much hotter and more fluid than the lithosphere)

Question 2

The tectonic plate moves over the plume leading to

Answer 2

the formation of a chain of volcanic islands (Hawaii)

Question 3

The oldest island is the one ………….. from the plume

Answer 3

furthest away