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Plates and Plate Boundaries
Contributed by: Trieu
(Original author: Carlson)
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) Nazca Plate
B) North American Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Pacific Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) North American Plate
B) Pacific Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) Pacific Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) African Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) South American Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) North American Plate
E) African Plate
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) North American Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) African Plate
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
  • 9. The boundary formed by the collision of two lithospheric plates
A) divergent boundary
B) transform boundary
C) convergent boundary
  • 10. The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
A) convergent boundary
B) divergent 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) 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) African and South American Plates
B) Indian and Eurasian Plates
C) Pacific and North American plates
  • 15. What pushes the plates in different directions
A) current events
B) air currents
C) ocean currents
D) convection currents
  • 16. Alfred Wegener is known for developing what scientific theory?
A) Theory of Plate Tectonics
B) Theory of Continental Drift
C) Trench Theory
D) The Big Bang Theory
  • 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) bassalt
B) new sea floor
C) mountains
D) fossils
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 4.5 billion
B) 14 billion
C) 4.5 million
D) 4.5 thousand
  • 20. Oceanic crust is formed by seafloor spreading
A) false
B) true
  • 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) false
B) true
  • 23. The Himalayan continue to get taller
A) true
B) false
  • 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) Seafloor Spreading
B) The Earth's Core
C) Mountain ranges
D) The continents
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