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Plates and Plate Boundaries - Skyndipróf
plates
  • 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
plates
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) Pacific Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) South American Plate
E) North American Plate
plates
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) African Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Pacific Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) South American Plate
plates
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) South American Plate
plates
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) South American Plate
C) African Plate
D) North American Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
plates
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
plates
  • 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
plates
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) Nazca Plate
boundaries convergent
  • 9. The boundary formed by the collision of two lithospheric plates
A) convergent boundary
B) divergent boundary
C) transform boundary
boundaries transform
  • 10. The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
A) convergent boundary
B) transform boundary
C) divergent 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) inner core
C) asthenosphere
D) lithosphere
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) divergent
B) convergent
C) transform
D) submergent
  • 14. An example of transform boundary can be found between the
A) Indian and Eurasian Plates
B) Pacific and North American plates
C) African and South 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 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) 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) new sea floor
D) fossils
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 4.5 billion
B) 4.5 million
C) 4.5 thousand
D) 14 billion
  • 20. Oceanic crust is formed by seafloor spreading
A) true
B) false
  • 21. The Mid-Atlantic is closest to ________
A) The Pacific Plate
B) India
C) California
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) true
B) false
  • 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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Water Cycle Vocabulary
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