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Plates and Plate Boundaries
Contribuição de: Trieu
(Autor original: Carlson)
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) North American Plate
B) Pacific Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) North American Plate
B) Pacific Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) African Plate
D) Pacific Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) South American Plate
D) North American Plate
E) African Plate
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) African Plate
E) North American Plate
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Antarctic 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) convergent boundary
C) divergent 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) inner core
B) outer core
C) asthenosphere
D) lithosphere
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) convergent
B) transform
C) submergent
D) divergent
  • 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) convection currents
B) current events
C) ocean currents
D) air currents
  • 16. Alfred Wegener is known for developing what scientific theory?
A) Theory of Plate Tectonics
B) Theory of Continental Drift
C) Trench Theory
D) The Big Bang Theory
  • 17. If the mantle cooled and convection currents stopped moving...
A) volcanoes would erupt
B) The plates would stop moving
C) earthquakes would shake the crust
D) All of these
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) fossils
B) mountains
C) bassalt
D) new sea floor
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 14 billion
B) 4.5 thousand
C) 4.5 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) The Pacific Plate
B) Maine
C) California
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) false
B) true
  • 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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