ThatQuiz Bilduma Saia zaitez
Plates and Plate Boundaries - Galdetegia
Hauen laguntzarekin: Trieu
(Jatorrizko autorea: Carlson)
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) North American Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Pacific Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) Pacific Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) North American Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) Nazca Plate
B) African Plate
C) Pacific Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) South American Plate
D) African Plate
E) North American Plate
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) African Plate
B) North American Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Antarctic 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) 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) lithosphere
B) asthenosphere
C) inner core
D) outer core
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) convergent
B) transform
C) divergent
D) submergent
  • 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) convection currents
C) ocean currents
D) current events
  • 16. Alfred Wegener is known for developing what scientific theory?
A) Trench Theory
B) Theory of Continental Drift
C) The Big Bang Theory
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) bassalt
C) new sea floor
D) fossils
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 4.5 billion
B) 4.5 thousand
C) 4.5 million
D) 14 billion
  • 20. Oceanic crust is formed by seafloor spreading
A) false
B) true
  • 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) true
B) false
  • 23. The Himalayan continue to get taller
A) true
B) false
  • 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) The Earth's Core
D) Mountain ranges
Intereseko beste azterketa batzuk :
Water Cycle Vocabulary
Azterketa honekin sortua That Quiz — matematika praktikatzen den tokia.