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Plates and Plate Boundaries
Beigesteuert von: Trieu
(Ursprünglicher Autor: Carlson)
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Pacific 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) Nazca Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Pacific Plate
E) North American Plate
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) African Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Pacific Plate
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) North American Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) South American Plate
E) African Plate
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) African Plate
E) North American Plate
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Eurasian 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) convergent boundary
B) transform boundary
C) divergent boundary
  • 11. The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
A) divergent boundary
B) transform boundary
C) convergent boundary
  • 12. The solid, outer layer of the Earth that consists of the the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle
A) lithosphere
B) asthenosphere
C) inner core
D) outer core
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) submergent
B) transform
C) divergent
D) convergent
  • 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) convection currents
B) current events
C) ocean currents
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) earthquakes would shake the crust
C) All of these
D) The plates would stop moving
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) bassalt
B) new sea floor
C) mountains
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) California
B) India
C) The Pacific Plate
D) Maine
  • 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) false
B) true
  • 25. The discovery of _____________ lead to the Theory of Plate Tectonics
A) The Earth's Core
B) Seafloor Spreading
C) Mountain ranges
D) The continents
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