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