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Plates and Plate Boundaries
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) Pacific Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) North American Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Pacific Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) North American Plate
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) Pacific Plate
B) African Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) South American Plate
B) African Plate
C) North American Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) South American Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) North American Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) African Plate
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Eurasian 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) divergent boundary
B) transform 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) outer core
B) lithosphere
C) asthenosphere
D) inner core
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) submergent
B) convergent
C) divergent
D) transform
  • 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) convection currents
B) ocean currents
C) current events
D) air currents
  • 16. Alfred Wegener is known for developing what scientific theory?
A) The Big Bang Theory
B) Trench 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) All of these
C) The plates would stop moving
D) earthquakes would shake the crust
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) bassalt
B) mountains
C) new sea floor
D) fossils
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 14 billion
B) 4.5 million
C) 4.5 thousand
D) 4.5 billion
  • 20. Oceanic crust is formed by seafloor spreading
A) false
B) true
  • 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) true
B) false
  • 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) The continents
B) Mountain ranges
C) Seafloor Spreading
D) The Earth's Core
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