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Plates and Plate Boundaries
Contribució de: Trieu
(Autor original: Carlson)
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Pacific Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) North American Plate
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) North American Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) Pacific Plate
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) African Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Pacific Plate
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) North American Plate
B) South American Plate
C) African Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) North American Plate
E) African Plate
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) South American 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) divergent boundary
B) transform boundary
C) convergent 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) inner core
C) lithosphere
D) outer core
  • 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) Pacific and North American plates
B) African and South American Plates
C) Indian and Eurasian Plates
  • 15. What pushes the plates in different directions
A) air currents
B) ocean currents
C) current events
D) convection currents
  • 16. Alfred Wegener is known for developing what scientific theory?
A) Theory of Continental Drift
B) Trench Theory
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) All of these
C) The plates would stop moving
D) volcanoes would erupt
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) bassalt
B) new sea floor
C) mountains
D) fossils
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 14 billion
B) 4.5 thousand
C) 4.5 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) The Pacific Plate
B) California
C) Maine
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) 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 Earth's Core
B) Seafloor Spreading
C) Mountain ranges
D) The continents
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