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