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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) Eurasian Plate
C) North American Plate
D) Pacific Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) Pacific Plate
B) South American Plate
C) North American Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) Pacific Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) African Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) African Plate
B) South American Plate
C) North American Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) North American Plate
D) African Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 9. The boundary formed by the collision of two lithospheric plates
A) transform boundary
B) divergent 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) transform boundary
B) convergent 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) outer core
C) lithosphere
D) inner core
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) submergent
B) transform
C) convergent
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) ocean currents
B) convection currents
C) current events
D) air currents
  • 16. Alfred Wegener is known for developing what scientific theory?
A) The Big Bang Theory
B) Theory of Plate Tectonics
C) Theory of Continental Drift
D) Trench Theory
  • 17. If the mantle cooled and convection currents stopped moving...
A) All of these
B) earthquakes would shake the crust
C) The plates would stop moving
D) volcanoes would erupt
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) new sea floor
B) bassalt
C) mountains
D) fossils
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 4.5 million
B) 4.5 thousand
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) India
B) The Pacific Plate
C) California
D) Maine
  • 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) false
B) true
  • 25. The discovery of _____________ lead to the Theory of Plate Tectonics
A) Mountain ranges
B) The Earth's Core
C) Seafloor Spreading
D) The continents
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