Plates and Plate Boundaries
plates
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) South American Plate
B) North American Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) Pacific Plate
plates
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) South American Plate
C) North American Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) Pacific Plate
plates
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) Nazca Plate
B) South American Plate
C) African Plate
D) Pacific Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
plates
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) Nazca Plate
plates
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) South American Plate
D) North American Plate
E) African Plate
plates
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
plates
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) African Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) North American Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
plates
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
boundaries convergent
  • 9. The boundary formed by the collision of two lithospheric plates
A) divergent boundary
B) convergent boundary
C) transform boundary
boundaries transform
  • 10. The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
A) divergent boundary
B) transform boundary
C) convergent boundary
boundaries divergent
  • 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) asthenosphere
C) inner core
D) outer core
  • 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) African and South American Plates
B) Pacific and North American plates
C) Indian and Eurasian 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) 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) earthquakes would shake the crust
B) The plates would stop moving
C) volcanoes would erupt
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) 14 billion
B) 4.5 thousand
C) 4.5 million
D) 4.5 billion
  • 20. Oceanic crust is formed by seafloor spreading
A) true
B) false
  • 21. The Mid-Atlantic is closest to ________
A) The Pacific Plate
B) California
C) Maine
D) India
  • 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) Seafloor Spreading
B) The continents
C) The Earth's Core
D) Mountain ranges
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