Plates and Plate Boundaries
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) North American Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Pacific Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) South American Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) North American Plate
E) Pacific Plate
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) Pacific Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) South American Plate
E) African Plate
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) North American Plate
C) African Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) African Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) North American Plate
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) South American Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Nazca 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) transform boundary
B) convergent boundary
C) divergent 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) inner core
B) lithosphere
C) outer core
D) asthenosphere
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) divergent
B) convergent
C) transform
D) submergent
  • 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) ocean currents
B) current events
C) convection 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) The Big Bang Theory
D) Trench Theory
  • 17. If the mantle cooled and convection currents stopped moving...
A) volcanoes would erupt
B) The plates would stop moving
C) All of these
D) earthquakes would shake the crust
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) new sea floor
B) bassalt
C) fossils
D) mountains
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 4.5 million
B) 4.5 thousand
C) 4.5 billion
D) 14 billion
  • 20. Oceanic crust is formed by seafloor spreading
A) true
B) false
  • 21. The Mid-Atlantic is closest to ________
A) The Pacific Plate
B) India
C) California
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) 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) Mountain ranges
C) The Earth's Core
D) The continents
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