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Plates and Plate Boundaries - Quiz
Beigesteuert von: Trieu
(Ursprünglicher Autor: Carlson)
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) Pacific Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) South American Plate
D) North American Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Pacific Plate
C) South American Plate
D) North American Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) Pacific Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) African Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Nazca Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) African Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) North American Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) African Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) North American Plate
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 9. The boundary formed by the collision of two lithospheric plates
A) convergent boundary
B) transform 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) outer core
D) lithosphere
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) submergent
B) convergent
C) transform
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) convection currents
C) ocean currents
D) current events
  • 16. Alfred Wegener is known for developing what scientific theory?
A) Trench Theory
B) Theory of Plate Tectonics
C) Theory of Continental Drift
D) The Big Bang 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) bassalt
B) fossils
C) new sea floor
D) mountains
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 4.5 thousand
B) 14 billion
C) 4.5 million
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) Maine
C) California
D) The Pacific Plate
  • 22. The Indian Plate and the Eurasian plate form a transform boundary
A) true
B) false
  • 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) Seafloor Spreading
B) The continents
C) Mountain ranges
D) The Earth's Core
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