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