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Plates and Plate Boundaries
Con il contributo di: Trieu
(Autore originale: Carlson)
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) South American Plate
B) Pacific Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) North American Plate
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) Pacific Plate
B) North American Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) African Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Pacific Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) African Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) South American Plate
D) North American Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) African Plate
C) North American Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) South American Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) Indo-Australian 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) transform boundary
B) convergent boundary
C) divergent boundary
  • 11. The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
A) convergent boundary
B) transform 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) lithosphere
B) inner core
C) asthenosphere
D) outer core
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) convergent
B) submergent
C) divergent
D) transform
  • 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) current events
B) ocean currents
C) air currents
D) convection currents
  • 16. Alfred Wegener is known for developing what scientific theory?
A) Theory of Plate Tectonics
B) Trench Theory
C) The Big Bang Theory
D) Theory of Continental Drift
  • 17. If the mantle cooled and convection currents stopped moving...
A) All of these
B) The plates would stop moving
C) earthquakes would shake the crust
D) volcanoes would erupt
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) new sea floor
B) fossils
C) mountains
D) bassalt
  • 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) true
B) false
  • 21. The Mid-Atlantic is closest to ________
A) The Pacific Plate
B) California
C) Maine
D) India
  • 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) true
B) false
  • 25. The discovery of _____________ lead to the Theory of Plate Tectonics
A) The Earth's Core
B) Seafloor Spreading
C) The continents
D) Mountain ranges
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