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