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Plates and Plate Boundaries - Galdetegia
plates
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Pacific Plate
D) North American Plate
E) Nazca Plate
plates
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) Pacific Plate
B) North American Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) South American Plate
plates
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) Pacific Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) African Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
plates
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
plates
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) North American Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) African Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
plates
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) South American Plate
plates
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) North American Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) African Plate
plates
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Nazca Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) Indo-Australian 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) transform boundary
C) convergent boundary
boundaries divergent
  • 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) lithosphere
B) inner core
C) outer core
D) asthenosphere
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) convergent
B) submergent
C) transform
D) divergent
  • 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) current events
B) air currents
C) ocean currents
D) convection 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) mountains
B) fossils
C) bassalt
D) new sea floor
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 14 billion
B) 4.5 billion
C) 4.5 thousand
D) 4.5 million
  • 20. Oceanic crust is formed by seafloor spreading
A) true
B) false
  • 21. The Mid-Atlantic is closest to ________
A) Maine
B) California
C) India
D) The Pacific Plate
  • 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 continents
B) Seafloor Spreading
C) Mountain ranges
D) The Earth's Core
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