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