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Plates and Plate Boundaries
Prispevano od: Trieu
(Avtor originala: Carlson)
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) North American Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Pacific Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) Pacific Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) North American Plate
E) Nazca 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) Eurasian Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Antarctic 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) Nazca Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) Nazca Plate
B) North American Plate
C) African Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) South American Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
  • 9. The boundary formed by the collision of two lithospheric plates
A) convergent boundary
B) divergent boundary
C) transform 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) transform boundary
B) divergent boundary
C) convergent 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) inner core
D) asthenosphere
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) submergent
B) transform
C) divergent
D) convergent
  • 14. An example of transform boundary can be found between the
A) African and South American Plates
B) Pacific and North 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) The Big Bang Theory
B) Theory of Continental Drift
C) Trench Theory
D) Theory of Plate Tectonics
  • 17. If the mantle cooled and convection currents stopped moving...
A) The plates would stop moving
B) earthquakes would shake the crust
C) All of these
D) volcanoes would erupt
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) new sea floor
B) bassalt
C) mountains
D) fossils
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 4.5 billion
B) 14 billion
C) 4.5 thousand
D) 4.5 million
  • 20. Oceanic crust is formed by seafloor spreading
A) false
B) true
  • 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) true
B) false
  • 23. The Himalayan continue to get taller
A) true
B) false
  • 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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