Plates and Plate Boundaries
plates
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) Pacific Plate
B) South American Plate
C) North American Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
plates
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Pacific Plate
C) North American Plate
D) Eurasian 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) Nazca Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
plates
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) South American Plate
plates
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) South American Plate
B) African Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) North American Plate
plates
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
plates
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) North American Plate
D) African Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
plates
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Nazca Plate
boundaries convergent
  • 9. The boundary formed by the collision of two lithospheric plates
A) transform boundary
B) convergent boundary
C) divergent 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) 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) outer core
B) asthenosphere
C) lithosphere
D) inner core
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) divergent
B) transform
C) submergent
D) convergent
  • 14. An example of transform boundary can be found between the
A) Pacific and North American plates
B) African and South American Plates
C) Indian and Eurasian Plates
  • 15. What pushes the plates in different directions
A) ocean currents
B) air currents
C) convection currents
D) current events
  • 16. Alfred Wegener is known for developing what scientific theory?
A) Theory of Continental Drift
B) The Big Bang Theory
C) Trench Theory
D) Theory of Plate Tectonics
  • 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) new sea floor
B) bassalt
C) mountains
D) fossils
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 4.5 billion
B) 14 billion
C) 4.5 million
D) 4.5 thousand
  • 20. Oceanic crust is formed by seafloor spreading
A) false
B) true
  • 21. The Mid-Atlantic is closest to ________
A) California
B) India
C) Maine
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) Mountain ranges
B) The Earth's Core
C) The continents
D) Seafloor Spreading
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