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