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Plates and Plate Boundaries
plates
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) Pacific Plate
D) South American Plate
E) North American Plate
plates
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) South American Plate
B) Pacific Plate
C) North American Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
plates
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) African Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Pacific Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Nazca Plate
plates
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) Nazca Plate
plates
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) South American Plate
D) North American Plate
E) African Plate
plates
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
plates
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) Nazca Plate
B) African Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) North American Plate
plates
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) South American 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) divergent boundary
C) transform 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) outer core
C) asthenosphere
D) inner core
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) submergent
B) convergent
C) transform
D) divergent
  • 14. An example of transform boundary can be found between the
A) Pacific and North American plates
B) Indian and Eurasian Plates
C) African and South American Plates
  • 15. What pushes the plates in different directions
A) air currents
B) convection currents
C) ocean 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) The plates would stop moving
C) All of these
D) volcanoes would erupt
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) bassalt
B) new sea floor
C) mountains
D) fossils
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 14 billion
B) 4.5 billion
C) 4.5 thousand
D) 4.5 million
  • 20. Oceanic crust is formed by seafloor spreading
A) false
B) true
  • 21. The Mid-Atlantic is closest to ________
A) Maine
B) India
C) California
D) The Pacific Plate
  • 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) false
B) true
  • 25. The discovery of _____________ lead to the Theory of Plate Tectonics
A) Mountain ranges
B) Seafloor Spreading
C) The Earth's Core
D) The continents
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