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