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Plates and Plate Boundaries
plates
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) South American Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Pacific Plate
E) North American Plate
plates
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) North American Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Pacific Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) Nazca Plate
plates
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) South American Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) African Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Pacific Plate
plates
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) South American Plate
plates
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) African Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) North American Plate
E) South American Plate
plates
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
plates
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) North American Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) African Plate
E) Nazca Plate
plates
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Nazca Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Eurasian 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) convergent boundary
B) transform boundary
C) divergent 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) lithosphere
B) outer core
C) asthenosphere
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) Indian and Eurasian Plates
B) African and South American Plates
C) Pacific and North American plates
  • 15. What pushes the plates in different directions
A) convection currents
B) current events
C) ocean currents
D) air currents
  • 16. Alfred Wegener is known for developing what scientific theory?
A) Theory of Plate Tectonics
B) Theory of Continental Drift
C) Trench Theory
D) The Big Bang Theory
  • 17. If the mantle cooled and convection currents stopped moving...
A) earthquakes would shake the crust
B) All of these
C) The plates would stop moving
D) volcanoes would erupt
  • 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) 14 billion
C) 4.5 thousand
D) 4.5 million
  • 20. Oceanic crust is formed by seafloor spreading
A) false
B) true
  • 21. The Mid-Atlantic is closest to ________
A) California
B) India
C) Maine
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) true
B) false
  • 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 continents
C) The Earth's Core
D) Mountain ranges
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