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Plates and Plate Boundaries
plates
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) South American Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) North American Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) Pacific Plate
plates
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) Pacific Plate
B) North American Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
plates
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) South American Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) African Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Pacific Plate
plates
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) South American Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
plates
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) South American Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) African Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) North American Plate
plates
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) South American Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
plates
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) Nazca Plate
B) North American Plate
C) African Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
plates
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) South American Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
boundaries convergent
  • 9. The boundary formed by the collision of two lithospheric plates
A) convergent boundary
B) divergent boundary
C) transform boundary
boundaries transform
  • 10. The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
A) transform boundary
B) convergent boundary
C) divergent boundary
boundaries divergent
  • 11. The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
A) convergent boundary
B) transform boundary
C) divergent boundary
  • 12. The solid, outer layer of the Earth that consists of the the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle
A) asthenosphere
B) lithosphere
C) outer core
D) inner core
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) divergent
B) submergent
C) convergent
D) transform
  • 14. An example of transform boundary can be found between the
A) Pacific and North American plates
B) Indian and Eurasian Plates
C) African and South American Plates
  • 15. What pushes the plates in different directions
A) air currents
B) convection currents
C) current events
D) ocean currents
  • 16. Alfred Wegener is known for developing what scientific theory?
A) Theory of Plate Tectonics
B) The Big Bang Theory
C) Trench Theory
D) Theory of Continental Drift
  • 17. If the mantle cooled and convection currents stopped moving...
A) earthquakes would shake the crust
B) volcanoes would erupt
C) The plates would stop moving
D) All of these
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) mountains
B) bassalt
C) fossils
D) new sea floor
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 14 billion
B) 4.5 billion
C) 4.5 thousand
D) 4.5 million
  • 20. Oceanic crust is formed by seafloor spreading
A) true
B) false
  • 21. The Mid-Atlantic is closest to ________
A) California
B) Maine
C) The Pacific Plate
D) India
  • 22. The Indian Plate and the Eurasian plate form a transform boundary
A) false
B) true
  • 23. The Himalayan continue to get taller
A) false
B) true
  • 24. There is no evidence that Pangaea ever existed
A) true
B) false
  • 25. The discovery of _____________ lead to the Theory of Plate Tectonics
A) Seafloor Spreading
B) Mountain ranges
C) The continents
D) The Earth's Core
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