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