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