Pacific Islands
Most of the Pacific Islands are located in what region?
Tropic.
What natural hazards occur at the rim of the Pacific Plate?
Volcanoes, tsunamis and earthquakes.
What tectonic plate does the Pacific Ocean lie on?
Pacific Plate.
Coral Bleaching.
What percentage of the Earth's surface does the Pacific cover.
Approx 1/3 or ~33.33%
The Hawaiian Islands are created by what?
Hot spots.
What is the distance tectonic plates approximately travel in one year?
2 inches (5cm).
Name the three most common animals in the pacific ocean.
Hammerhead shark, Stellar sea lion and Pacific White sided dolphn.
What, at roughly 180 degrees of longitude could be considered the opposite of the Greenwich Meridian?
International Dateline.
How many nations are there in the over 25,000 pacific islands?
25.
Roughly how long (in miles) is the chain of volcanoes along the ring of fire?
25,000 miles
The Mariana trench is created through what process?
Tectonic plates subduct beneath another/Subduction.
How does coral bleaching occur?
How deep is the deepest point in the Pacific Ocean?
11 kilometres.
Name the three regions of the Pacific Isalnds.
Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.
The Hawaiian Islands are considered to be huge mountains in the middle of the pacific ocean made of what type of rock/s?
Volcanic or basaltic rock.
Why do we have tectonic plates? How were they formed?
The convection currents of hot flowing magma build-up at the ridges separating the plates.
List any 3 layers of the ocean.
trenches, abyss, midnight zone, twilight zone, sunlight zone.
The great Pacific garbage patch is approximately equvilant to the size of what country/state?
Texas.
Which Island region does Fiji and New Guinea belong to?
Melanesia.
What Hawaiian volcano is the talles mountain in the world when measured from the ocean floor?
Mauna Kea
Why are fish buoyant?
It displaces less or equal amount to its mass.