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Plates and Plate Boundaries
Opracowany przez: Trieu
(Autor testu pierwotnego: Carlson)
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) North American Plate
B) Pacific Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) Nazca Plate
B) North American Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Pacific Plate
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) Pacific Plate
B) African Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) South American Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) South American Plate
B) North American Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) African Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) North American Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) African Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) South American 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) divergent boundary
C) convergent 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) outer core
C) lithosphere
D) asthenosphere
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) convergent
B) transform
C) divergent
D) submergent
  • 14. An example of transform boundary can be found between the
A) African and South American Plates
B) Indian and Eurasian Plates
C) Pacific and North American plates
  • 15. What pushes the plates in different directions
A) convection currents
B) current events
C) ocean currents
D) air currents
  • 16. Alfred Wegener is known for developing what scientific theory?
A) Theory of Continental Drift
B) The Big Bang Theory
C) Theory of Plate Tectonics
D) Trench Theory
  • 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) fossils
B) bassalt
C) mountains
D) new sea floor
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 4.5 million
B) 4.5 billion
C) 14 billion
D) 4.5 thousand
  • 20. Oceanic crust is formed by seafloor spreading
A) true
B) false
  • 21. The Mid-Atlantic is closest to ________
A) Maine
B) California
C) The Pacific Plate
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) 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 Earth's Core
C) Seafloor Spreading
D) The continents
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