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Plates and Plate Boundaries
plates
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) South American Plate
B) North American Plate
C) Pacific Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) Nazca Plate
plates
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) North American Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Pacific Plate
plates
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) South American Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Pacific Plate
D) African Plate
E) Nazca Plate
plates
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
plates
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) North American Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) African Plate
plates
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) South American Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
plates
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) North American Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) African Plate
plates
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) South American Plate
boundaries convergent
  • 9. The boundary formed by the collision of two lithospheric plates
A) convergent boundary
B) transform boundary
C) divergent boundary
boundaries transform
  • 10. The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
A) divergent boundary
B) convergent boundary
C) transform boundary
boundaries divergent
  • 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) inner core
B) lithosphere
C) asthenosphere
D) outer core
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) divergent
B) convergent
C) transform
D) submergent
  • 14. An example of transform boundary can be found between the
A) Pacific and North American plates
B) Indian and Eurasian 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) The Big Bang Theory
C) Theory of Continental Drift
D) Theory of Plate Tectonics
  • 17. If the mantle cooled and convection currents stopped moving...
A) volcanoes would erupt
B) earthquakes would shake the crust
C) All of these
D) The plates would stop moving
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) fossils
B) new sea floor
C) bassalt
D) mountains
  • 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) true
B) false
  • 21. The Mid-Atlantic is closest to ________
A) Maine
B) California
C) The Pacific Plate
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) false
B) true
  • 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 continents
B) Mountain ranges
C) Seafloor Spreading
D) The Earth's Core
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