Plates and Plate Boundaries
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Pacific Plate
C) North American Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Pacific Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) North American Plate
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) South American Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) African Plate
D) Pacific Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) North American Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) African Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Nazca Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) Nazca Plate
B) African Plate
C) North American Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Antarctic 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) divergent boundary
B) transform boundary
C) convergent boundary
  • 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) asthenosphere
B) outer core
C) lithosphere
D) inner core
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) divergent
B) submergent
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 Continental Drift
B) Theory of Plate Tectonics
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) bassalt
B) new sea floor
C) mountains
D) fossils
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 4.5 million
B) 4.5 billion
C) 4.5 thousand
D) 14 billion
  • 20. Oceanic crust is formed by seafloor spreading
A) false
B) true
  • 21. The Mid-Atlantic is closest to ________
A) California
B) Maine
C) India
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) 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) The continents
D) Seafloor Spreading
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