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Plates and Plate Boundaries
plates
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) Nazca Plate
B) North American Plate
C) Pacific Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
plates
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) Nazca Plate
B) North American Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Pacific Plate
E) South American Plate
plates
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) Pacific Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) African Plate
plates
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
plates
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) South American Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) North American Plate
E) African Plate
plates
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) South American Plate
plates
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) African Plate
B) North American Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Nazca 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) divergent boundary
B) transform boundary
C) convergent boundary
boundaries transform
  • 10. The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
A) divergent boundary
B) transform boundary
C) convergent boundary
boundaries divergent
  • 11. The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
A) transform boundary
B) divergent boundary
C) convergent 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) outer core
C) inner core
D) lithosphere
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) submergent
B) convergent
C) divergent
D) transform
  • 14. An example of transform boundary can be found between the
A) African and South American Plates
B) Indian and Eurasian Plates
C) Pacific and North American plates
  • 15. What pushes the plates in different directions
A) air currents
B) convection currents
C) ocean currents
D) current events
  • 16. Alfred Wegener is known for developing what scientific theory?
A) Trench Theory
B) Theory of Continental Drift
C) The Big Bang Theory
D) Theory of Plate Tectonics
  • 17. If the mantle cooled and convection currents stopped moving...
A) earthquakes would shake the crust
B) volcanoes would erupt
C) All of these
D) The plates would stop moving
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) fossils
B) bassalt
C) mountains
D) new sea floor
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 4.5 thousand
B) 4.5 million
C) 14 billion
D) 4.5 billion
  • 20. Oceanic crust is formed by seafloor spreading
A) false
B) true
  • 21. The Mid-Atlantic is closest to ________
A) Maine
B) California
C) India
D) The Pacific Plate
  • 22. The Indian Plate and the Eurasian plate form a transform boundary
A) true
B) false
  • 23. The Himalayan continue to get taller
A) true
B) false
  • 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) The Earth's Core
B) Mountain ranges
C) The continents
D) Seafloor Spreading
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