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