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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) Eurasian Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Pacific Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) North American Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Pacific Plate
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) Pacific Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) African Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) African Plate
C) North American Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) North American Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) African Plate
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) South American 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) 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) outer core
B) asthenosphere
C) lithosphere
D) inner core
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) submergent
B) convergent
C) divergent
D) transform
  • 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) 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) All of these
B) earthquakes would shake the crust
C) volcanoes would erupt
D) The plates would stop moving
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) mountains
B) fossils
C) bassalt
D) new sea floor
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 4.5 million
B) 4.5 thousand
C) 14 billion
D) 4.5 billion
  • 20. Oceanic crust is formed by seafloor spreading
A) false
B) true
  • 21. The Mid-Atlantic is closest to ________
A) Maine
B) California
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) Seafloor Spreading
C) Mountain ranges
D) The continents
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