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