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