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