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