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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) Nazca Plate
B) Pacific Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) South American Plate
E) North American Plate
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) South American Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Pacific Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) North American Plate
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) Pacific Plate
B) African Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) North American Plate
B) African Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) African Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) North American Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Nazca Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
  • 9. The boundary formed by the collision of two lithospheric plates
A) divergent boundary
B) transform boundary
C) convergent 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) divergent 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) asthenosphere
B) lithosphere
C) outer core
D) inner 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) 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) current events
B) ocean currents
C) convection currents
D) air currents
  • 16. Alfred Wegener is known for developing what scientific theory?
A) The Big Bang Theory
B) Trench Theory
C) Theory of Continental Drift
D) Theory of Plate Tectonics
  • 17. If the mantle cooled and convection currents stopped moving...
A) All of these
B) The plates would stop moving
C) volcanoes would erupt
D) earthquakes would shake the crust
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) bassalt
B) new sea floor
C) mountains
D) fossils
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 14 billion
B) 4.5 million
C) 4.5 thousand
D) 4.5 billion
  • 20. Oceanic crust is formed by seafloor spreading
A) false
B) true
  • 21. The Mid-Atlantic is closest to ________
A) The Pacific Plate
B) Maine
C) India
D) California
  • 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) true
B) false
  • 25. The discovery of _____________ lead to the Theory of Plate Tectonics
A) Mountain ranges
B) The continents
C) Seafloor Spreading
D) The Earth's Core
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