Plates and Plate Boundaries
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) Nazca Plate
B) North American Plate
C) Pacific Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Pacific Plate
D) South American Plate
E) North American Plate
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) Pacific Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) South American Plate
E) African Plate
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Nazca Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) North American Plate
C) African Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Nazca Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) African Plate
E) North American Plate
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) South American Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 9. The boundary formed by the collision of two lithospheric plates
A) convergent boundary
B) divergent boundary
C) transform boundary
  • 10. The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
A) divergent boundary
B) convergent 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) asthenosphere
B) lithosphere
C) inner core
D) outer core
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) transform
B) submergent
C) divergent
D) convergent
  • 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) ocean currents
B) current events
C) air currents
D) convection currents
  • 16. Alfred Wegener is known for developing what scientific theory?
A) Theory of Continental Drift
B) Trench Theory
C) The Big Bang Theory
D) Theory of Plate Tectonics
  • 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) bassalt
B) new sea floor
C) fossils
D) mountains
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 4.5 million
B) 4.5 thousand
C) 14 billion
D) 4.5 billion
  • 20. Oceanic crust is formed by seafloor spreading
A) false
B) true
  • 21. The Mid-Atlantic is closest to ________
A) India
B) California
C) Maine
D) The Pacific Plate
  • 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) Mountain ranges
B) The Earth's Core
C) The continents
D) Seafloor Spreading
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