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Plates and Plate Boundaries
Contribué par: Trieu
(Auteur original: Carlson)
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) Pacific Plate
B) North American Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 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
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) African Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Pacific Plate
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) North American Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) African Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) North American Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) African Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Nazca Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
  • 9. The boundary formed by the collision of two lithospheric plates
A) divergent boundary
B) convergent boundary
C) transform boundary
  • 10. The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
A) divergent boundary
B) convergent boundary
C) transform 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) asthenosphere
B) outer core
C) lithosphere
D) inner core
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) submergent
B) convergent
C) transform
D) divergent
  • 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) current events
B) ocean currents
C) convection currents
D) air currents
  • 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) volcanoes would erupt
B) earthquakes would shake the crust
C) All of these
D) The plates would stop moving
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) new sea floor
B) mountains
C) bassalt
D) fossils
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 4.5 million
B) 14 billion
C) 4.5 billion
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) The Pacific Plate
C) Maine
D) California
  • 22. The Indian Plate and the Eurasian plate form a transform boundary
A) false
B) true
  • 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) The Earth's Core
C) Seafloor Spreading
D) Mountain ranges
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