Q 01/05

What geologic feature built the volcanoes of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park and the rest of the island chain?

A) A subduction zone

B) A hotspot

C) A mid-ocean ridge

D) A transform fault

Answer · why

B) A hotspot

A hotspot: the Pacific Plate slowly carries each volcano northwest away from it, so the islands grow older toward Kauaʻi and the Big Island's are youn...

Q 02/05

What is the name Kīlauea usually translated as, a nod to its frequent eruptions?

A) Fire fountain

B) Burning mountain

C) Red hill

D) Much spreading

Answer · why

D) Much spreading

Much spreading, or spewing: lava pours out so often that flows younger than 1,000 years cover about 90 percent of its surface.

Q 03/05

Mauna Loa's name translates as what?

A) White mountain

B) Fire mountain

C) Long mountain

D) Sacred mountain

Answer · why

C) Long mountain

Long mountain: its high-volume lava flows travel long distances, building a broad shield that makes up more than half of the island of Hawaiʻi.

Q 04/05

Mauna Loa's summit falls roughly 120 feet short of which neighbouring volcano's summit?

A) Hualālai

B) Mauna Kea

C) Mauna Iki

D) Kīlauea

Answer · why

B) Mauna Kea

Mauna Kea: yet measured from its base on the seafloor, Mauna Loa rises about 30,000 feet, more than Everest stands above sea level.

Q 05/05

Kīlauea's summit crater Halemaʻumaʻu is traditionally regarded as the home of which deity?

A) Māui

B) Pele

C) Kāne

D) Lono

Answer · why

B) Pele

Pele: in 1824 High Chiefess Kapiʻolani defied her at Kīlauea, eating berries sacred to the goddess without first offering her any.