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