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