How Do Hot Spots and Plate Tectonics Account for the Islands

Multiple Choice

How do hot spots and plate tectonics account for the islands of the Hawaiian Island chain varying in age?

A) The volcanic hot spot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean was originally in the Atlantic Ocean and is therefore quite old.
B) Hot spots and plate tectonics cannot account for the age variability.
C) The volcanic hot spot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is due to the divergence of the East Pacific Rise.
D) As molten material continually seeped from the hot spot, an island(s) would form. As the Pacific Plate continued to move the island locked to the Pacific Plate would move as well. A new island would then form above the hot spot.