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