Plates and Plate Boundaries
plates
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) South American Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Pacific Plate
D) North American Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
plates
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) North American Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Pacific Plate
E) Nazca Plate
plates
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) South American Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) African Plate
E) Pacific Plate
plates
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) South American Plate
plates
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) African Plate
B) North American Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) South American Plate
plates
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) South American Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
plates
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) North American Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) African Plate
plates
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
boundaries convergent
  • 9. The boundary formed by the collision of two lithospheric plates
A) transform boundary
B) convergent boundary
C) divergent boundary
boundaries transform
  • 10. The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
A) convergent boundary
B) transform boundary
C) divergent boundary
boundaries divergent
  • 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) lithosphere
C) asthenosphere
D) outer core
  • 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) convection currents
B) ocean currents
C) current events
D) air currents
  • 16. Alfred Wegener is known for developing what scientific theory?
A) Theory of Plate Tectonics
B) The Big Bang Theory
C) Theory of Continental Drift
D) Trench Theory
  • 17. If the mantle cooled and convection currents stopped moving...
A) The plates would stop moving
B) earthquakes would shake the crust
C) volcanoes would erupt
D) All of these
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) new sea floor
B) mountains
C) bassalt
D) fossils
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 4.5 million
B) 14 billion
C) 4.5 thousand
D) 4.5 billion
  • 20. Oceanic crust is formed by seafloor spreading
A) false
B) true
  • 21. The Mid-Atlantic is closest to ________
A) California
B) India
C) The Pacific Plate
D) Maine
  • 22. The Indian Plate and the Eurasian plate form a transform boundary
A) false
B) true
  • 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 continents
C) Seafloor Spreading
D) The Earth's Core
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