VOLCANIC HOTSPOT
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1. a hotspot is located above the________
2. name of archipelago sits on the northern edge of the
Nazca tectonic plate which is a product of a hotspot_______
3. a hotspot does not move. It is
4. found above a hotspot that carries volcano away from
its original position
6. a geologic feature that has a vent where magma comes
out
9. volcanoes that are carried away from the hotspot
becomes_______
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Answer:
1. mantleplume
2.Galapagos
3. stationary
4.tectonicplates
6.volcano
9.extinct
5. is a landmass produce through series of volcano
created with an active hotspot
7. is an area in the mantle from which heat rises as a
thermal plume from deep in the Earth
8. example of an island created on a hotspot
10. the process of volcano releasing the molten rock
materials inside it