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Plates and Plate Boundaries
Contributed by: Trieu
(Original author: Carlson)
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) Pacific Plate
B) North American Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) Pacific Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) North American Plate
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) Pacific Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) African Plate
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) North American Plate
B) African Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) South American Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 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
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Nazca 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) 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) lithosphere
B) asthenosphere
C) outer core
D) inner core
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) divergent
B) transform
C) convergent
D) submergent
  • 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) convection currents
B) current events
C) air currents
D) ocean currents
  • 16. Alfred Wegener is known for developing what scientific theory?
A) Trench Theory
B) Theory of Plate Tectonics
C) The Big Bang 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) 4.5 million
B) 4.5 thousand
C) 14 billion
D) 4.5 billion
  • 20. Oceanic crust is formed by seafloor spreading
A) false
B) true
  • 21. The Mid-Atlantic is closest to ________
A) India
B) Maine
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) Mountain ranges
D) The continents
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