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