Who am I?
Last erupted about 120,000 years ago.
Who is Kohala?
I am from deep within the earth and am stored in a hot chamber.
What is magma?
This area of land appears to be an island within a sea of lava flows.
What is a kipuka?
This location in the United States has lost more native species than any other.
What is Hawaii?
This Hawaiian goddess resides in an active volcano on Hawaii Island.
Who is Pele?
I am the highest point in the state of Hawaii. People use my peak to look deep into the night sky.
Who is Mauna Kea?
Small, solid pieces of this form when molten lava erupts from a lava fountain.
What is Pele's tears?
This puka's English name translates into "House of the amau fern".
What is the Hale'ma'uma'u crater?
These 3 "Ws" brought native plants and animals to Hawaii.
What is wind, water and wings?
Otherwise known by this longer name, this goddess of fire and volcanos continues to cover the Big Island of Hawaii with molten lava, creating new land in the process.
Who is Peleonuamea?
These 3 active volcanos reside on Hawaii Island.
Who are:
Kilauea
Mauna Kea
Mauna Loa
This type of lava is fluid and has a smooth surface; it forms from faster moving flows.
What is Pahoehoe?
This linear volcanic vent through which lava erupts is usually a few meters wide and may be many kilometers long.
What is a fissure?
This is the variety of life on Earth; including every living thing from humans to the tiniest organisms.
What is biodiversity?
This tiny insect loves the smell of rotten bananas and helps to spread a deadly fungus.
What is the Ambrosia beetle?
English translation, Long Mountain. This geologic landform stands over 30,000 feet tall and is almost 14,000 feet above sea level.
Who is Mauna Loa?
This beach's beauty is created when slow moving a'a explodes in the ocean.
What is a black sand beach?
This puka, located in or near a volcano, smells like rotten eggs due to escaping sulfurous gasses.
What is a fumarole?
These species arrived in new locations, via deliberate or accidental human activity.
What are non-native species?
These rock fragments and particles are ejected during a volcanic eruption.
What is tephra?
This active shield volcano, located along the southern shore of Hawaii Island, emerged above sea level about 100,000 years ago.
Who is Kilauea?
This geologic structure forms when surrounding lava cools and hardens and after melted parts drain away.
What is a lava tube?
Kipukas are important to the aina, after a flow, because they allow for these positive environmental factors to work their magic.
What is re-vegetation of damaged forested areas?
This is a mutation, or genetic change that helps an organism survive in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
New findings show that this percentage of the dust spread by Ambrosia beetles that bore into infected Ohi'a trees contain spores that carry the fatal fungal disease.
(HINT: this number is a less than 100 and is a multiple of 5)
What is 75%?