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Plates and Plate Boundaries
plates
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) South American Plate
B) Pacific Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) North American Plate
plates
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) North American Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Pacific Plate
E) Nazca Plate
plates
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) South American Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Pacific Plate
E) African Plate
plates
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) South American Plate
plates
  • 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
plates
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
plates
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) African Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) North American Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
plates
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) Nazca Plate
boundaries convergent
  • 9. The boundary formed by the collision of two lithospheric plates
A) transform boundary
B) divergent boundary
C) convergent boundary
boundaries transform
  • 10. The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
A) convergent boundary
B) divergent boundary
C) transform boundary
boundaries divergent
  • 11. The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
A) convergent boundary
B) divergent 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) divergent
B) transform
C) convergent
D) submergent
  • 14. An example of transform boundary can be found between the
A) African and South American Plates
B) Pacific and North American plates
C) Indian and Eurasian Plates
  • 15. What pushes the plates in different directions
A) ocean currents
B) air currents
C) current events
D) convection currents
  • 16. Alfred Wegener is known for developing what scientific theory?
A) Theory of Plate Tectonics
B) Trench Theory
C) Theory of Continental Drift
D) The Big Bang Theory
  • 17. If the mantle cooled and convection currents stopped moving...
A) volcanoes would erupt
B) The plates would stop moving
C) All of these
D) earthquakes would shake the crust
  • 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 billion
B) 14 billion
C) 4.5 thousand
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) The Pacific Plate
C) Maine
D) California
  • 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) true
B) false
  • 25. The discovery of _____________ lead to the Theory of Plate Tectonics
A) Mountain ranges
B) Seafloor Spreading
C) The Earth's Core
D) The continents
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