Lava tube is a natural tunnel that is formed by the flowing lava. It is formed when the lava hardens and flows on the outside. 15. The four types of sand found on Hawaiian beaches are black‚ green‚ red‚ and white sand. They are all different in their compositions because of the ways that they were formed. For example‚ the black sand is from lava or the erosion of black volcanic rocks‚ and the red sand is formed from
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1. Queen Liliuokalani was the first and only reigning Hawaiian queen. Imperialism is the policy by which stronger nations extend their economic‚ political or military control over weaker nations. William Seward was the Secretary of State under presidents Lincoln and Andrew Johnson he purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867. Pearl Harbor was the Hawaiian port granted by 1887 treaty to the United States for use as a refueling station for U.S. ships. They connect and are important because when Queen Liliuokalani
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EXPLORING LOIHI: THE NEXT HAWAIIAN ISLAND Twenty-one miles off the Big Island‚ nearly 3‚000 feet beneath the waves‚ an island is struggling to be born. Researchers are taking submersibles to the very bottom of the sea to watch the process unfold. Quiet as a falling pebble‚ the Pisces V submersible begins its descent to the ocean floor. Soon the downwelling light wanes and the pilot and a pair of scientists inside are swallowed up in inky blackness - a darkness as absolute as interstellar space
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beaches‚ tourist spots taking over‚ and exotic foods replacing authentic foods. Hawaii has got it all! Just like any other big tourist spot in the world now a days. Hawaii is no longer unique for its Hawaiian essence. Tourist come to Hawaii in order to experience and get a glimpse of the “Hawaiian lifestyle”‚ or well what they think it is. They come for the beautiful beaches and Hawaii’s natural beauty. But what they’re really getting is a stereotypical view of Hawaii. Through the years Hawaii has
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14.2 percent in just two years. This dramatic increase in tourism seems to be a beneficial boost for Hawaii’s economy; however‚ the increasing rate of tourism is harming the native people of Hawaii. While the Hawaiian economy is experiencing one of its most fruitful years‚ the native Hawaiian people are suffering from job loss‚ poverty‚ depression‚ and an overall "cultural destruction" (Trask 260). Haunani-Kay Trask uses rhetoric to discuss these harmful effects in her essay "Tourist‚ Stay Home"
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stands over twice the height of Niagara Falls‚ it’s a certain crowd pleaser. After gasping at the sight of the falls‚ walking through dense‚ orchid-filled rain forest‚ snapping photos of Hawaiian plants and animals
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Honolulu Waste Problem: City Struggles To Find A Place For Its 1.6 Million Tons Of Annual Garbage Gigantic piles of shrink-wrapped garbage have been moldering in the heat of a Hawaii industrial park for more than five months‚ waiting for a place to be shipped. That wait appeared to end Monday when city officials inked a deal to dispose of the 40 million-pound pile of odious rubbish over the next six months by mostly burning it in an existing waste-to-power plant. But bigger problems remain for
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Mauna Loa is the biggest mountain in the world and one of the most active. It rises over 4 kilometers above sea level. Its coordinates are 19.4721 longatude and 155.5922 latitude. It is located in Hawaii. The 74.5 mile long volcano covers half of Hawaii. The massive volcano rises almost 2.5 miles above sea level. The volcano measures 56‚000 feet from its ocean floor base. One of the legends say that the goddess Pele was driven from her home by her sister. Every time Pele would thrust her digging
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scrape can leave you cut quite deep. Coral reefs‚ while dangerous‚ could be the least of your worries in Oahu if you find yourself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Sharks are prevalent among the waters of Oahu and most of the rest of the Hawaiian Islands. There may be up to forty species living around the Islands but a few are more likely to come near the shores of Oahu. There are white and grey tipped reef sharks‚ tiger sharks‚ scalloped nosed hammerhead sharks‚ and the sandbar shark. Among
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When the theorists sketched the crustal plates on the globe‚ they saw the world’s volcanoes fall into line along the plate edges. This made the theorists even more motivated in the way the volcanoes and hotspots worked. If we take a look at the Hawaiian Islands‚ the big island has three active volcanoes. Away from this end‚ the islands get older and smaller‚ and beyond the last island marches a long train of undersea mountains. All of the mountains underwater are even older than the ones about
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