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Plates and Plate Boundaries
Contribué par: Trieu
(Auteur original: Carlson)
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) South American Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Pacific Plate
D) North American Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) Pacific Plate
D) North American Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) Nazca Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Pacific Plate
D) African Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) African Plate
B) North American Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) African Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) North American Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
  • 9. The boundary formed by the collision of two lithospheric plates
A) divergent boundary
B) transform boundary
C) convergent boundary
  • 10. The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
A) transform boundary
B) convergent boundary
C) divergent boundary
  • 11. The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
A) transform boundary
B) convergent boundary
C) divergent 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) inner core
C) asthenosphere
D) outer core
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) convergent
B) divergent
C) submergent
D) transform
  • 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) convection currents
B) current events
C) ocean currents
D) air currents
  • 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) The plates would stop moving
C) earthquakes would shake the crust
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) Maine
C) California
D) The Pacific Plate
  • 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) Mountain ranges
B) Seafloor Spreading
C) The continents
D) The Earth's Core
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