This map shows the island of Maui, the second-largest of the Hawaiian Islands

and its surrounding islands. Maui was formed by two massive volcanoes, the
West Maui Volcano and the East Maui Volcano. Since Maui was formed by
two separate volcanoes, how did they join together to form the second-largest
island of the chain and how did the formation affect the geographical features
of Maui?
Both of these volcanoes were formed by the same mantle hotspot that formed
the other Hawaiian Islands. They rose more than a mile above the waters
surface and when they erupted, they created enough lava to fill the valley
between the volcanoes, joining together to create Maui as the island we see
today.

This scale map shows the view of the Pacific Rim and the countries that gather
around the rim of the Pacific Ocean. Within the Pacific Rim is an area called
the Ring of Fire, that runs around the edges of the Pacific is where a large
number of earthquakes and volcanic activities occur. Most of the Earths
volcanoes are located in the Ring of Fire because of its location in Earths
subduction zone. How did the Ring of Fire came to be and why is there so
much seismic activity in this area?
The Ring of Fire is the result of plate tectonics and the movement and collision
of lithospheric plates. When the plates crash into each other, one plate would
slide under the lighter plate and create a deep trench that changes the mantle
material of the ocean floor into buoyant magma. It then enters the interior of
the Earth and rises through the crust of the Earths surface, creating a series of
volcanoes known in the Ring of Fire today.

This map shows three main Hawaiian islands, Oahu, Maui, and Hawaii.
Northwest of these islands, is a chain of other Hawaiian islands that has been
created by continuous volcanic activity. The three main islands are above
ground while other islands are submerged underwater . How were these islands
formed, how do we know the age of each island and why are some submerged
under water?
These Hawaiian Islands were formed in the middle of a plate in which magma
rises up until it erupts on the sea floor called a hot spot. The hot spot occurred
in the middle of the Pacific Plate and as it situated itself onto that location, the
Pacific Plate was moving, forming the string of islands that make up the
Hawaiian Island chain. The oldest islands are the ones on the northwest end of
the chain as the hot spot that formed the islands moved from east to west,
ending at the Big Island of Hawaii, which is the youngest in the chain. As time
goes by, the islands are getting older and the crust that the islands sit begin to
cool down and slowly starts to erode, leading to the shriveling and gradual
submergence below the water surface.