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Plates and Plate Boundaries
Contribuido por: Trieu
(Autor original: Carlson)
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) North American Plate
D) Pacific Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) Pacific Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) North American Plate
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) South American Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Pacific Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) African Plate
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) South American Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) African Plate
E) North American Plate
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) African Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) North American Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) Indo-Australian 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) transform boundary
B) divergent boundary
C) convergent boundary
  • 11. The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
A) convergent boundary
B) divergent 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) outer core
B) asthenosphere
C) lithosphere
D) inner core
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) convergent
B) divergent
C) submergent
D) transform
  • 14. An example of transform boundary can be found between the
A) African and South American Plates
B) Indian and Eurasian Plates
C) Pacific and North American plates
  • 15. What pushes the plates in different directions
A) convection currents
B) air 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) The plates would stop moving
B) earthquakes would shake the crust
C) volcanoes would erupt
D) All of these
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) mountains
B) new sea floor
C) fossils
D) bassalt
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 14 billion
B) 4.5 million
C) 4.5 billion
D) 4.5 thousand
  • 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) false
B) true
  • 25. The discovery of _____________ lead to the Theory of Plate Tectonics
A) The Earth's Core
B) Mountain ranges
C) Seafloor Spreading
D) The continents
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