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