Plates and Plate Boundaries
plates
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Pacific Plate
D) North American Plate
E) Nazca Plate
plates
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) Nazca Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) North American Plate
E) Pacific Plate
plates
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Pacific Plate
C) African Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Nazca Plate
plates
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) South American Plate
plates
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) North American Plate
E) African Plate
plates
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) South American Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
plates
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) North American Plate
E) African Plate
plates
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) Nazca 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) transform boundary
C) divergent 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) outer core
C) lithosphere
D) asthenosphere
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) transform
B) submergent
C) divergent
D) convergent
  • 14. An example of transform boundary can be found between the
A) Indian and Eurasian Plates
B) Pacific and North American plates
C) African and South American Plates
  • 15. What pushes the plates in different directions
A) ocean currents
B) convection currents
C) current events
D) air currents
  • 16. Alfred Wegener is known for developing what scientific theory?
A) Theory of Plate Tectonics
B) Trench Theory
C) Theory of Continental Drift
D) The Big Bang Theory
  • 17. If the mantle cooled and convection currents stopped moving...
A) earthquakes would shake the crust
B) All of these
C) The plates would stop moving
D) volcanoes would erupt
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) mountains
B) bassalt
C) new sea floor
D) fossils
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 4.5 thousand
B) 4.5 million
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) California
B) The Pacific Plate
C) India
D) Maine
  • 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) true
B) false
  • 25. The discovery of _____________ lead to the Theory of Plate Tectonics
A) The continents
B) Mountain ranges
C) Seafloor Spreading
D) The Earth's Core
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