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