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Plates and Plate Boundaries
plates
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) North American Plate
B) Pacific Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
plates
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Pacific Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) North American Plate
plates
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) South American Plate
B) African Plate
C) Pacific Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Nazca Plate
plates
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) South American Plate
plates
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) South American Plate
C) North American Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) African Plate
plates
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Nazca Plate
plates
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) African Plate
E) North American Plate
plates
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) South American 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) transform boundary
B) convergent boundary
C) divergent boundary
boundaries divergent
  • 11. The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
A) divergent boundary
B) transform 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) inner core
C) outer core
D) asthenosphere
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) convergent
B) divergent
C) transform
D) submergent
  • 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 Plate Tectonics
C) The Big Bang Theory
D) Theory of Continental Drift
  • 17. If the mantle cooled and convection currents stopped moving...
A) The plates would stop moving
B) volcanoes would erupt
C) earthquakes would shake the crust
D) All of these
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) fossils
B) bassalt
C) new sea floor
D) mountains
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 4.5 thousand
B) 4.5 billion
C) 14 billion
D) 4.5 million
  • 20. Oceanic crust is formed by seafloor spreading
A) false
B) true
  • 21. The Mid-Atlantic is closest to ________
A) India
B) California
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) 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) The continents
B) The Earth's Core
C) Seafloor Spreading
D) Mountain ranges
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