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