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