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Plates and Plate Boundaries
Beigesteuert von: Trieu
(Ursprünglicher Autor: Carlson)
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) Nazca Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) North American Plate
E) Pacific Plate
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) South American Plate
B) Pacific Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) North American Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) South American Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) African Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Pacific Plate
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) South American Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) North American Plate
D) South American Plate
E) African Plate
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 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
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) South American 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) transform boundary
C) convergent 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) divergent
B) transform
C) submergent
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) convection currents
C) ocean currents
D) air currents
  • 16. Alfred Wegener is known for developing what scientific theory?
A) The Big Bang Theory
B) Theory of Continental Drift
C) Theory of Plate Tectonics
D) Trench Theory
  • 17. If the mantle cooled and convection currents stopped moving...
A) earthquakes would shake the crust
B) All of these
C) The plates would stop moving
D) volcanoes would erupt
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) mountains
B) fossils
C) bassalt
D) new sea floor
  • 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) Maine
B) The Pacific Plate
C) India
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) Mountain ranges
B) Seafloor Spreading
C) The Earth's Core
D) The continents
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