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Plates and Plate Boundaries
Con il contributo di: Trieu
(Autore originale: Carlson)
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) South American Plate
B) North American Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Pacific Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) North American Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Pacific Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) South American Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) Pacific Plate
E) African Plate
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) North American Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) African Plate
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) South American Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) African Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) North American Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) South American Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) Antarctic 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) divergent boundary
B) convergent boundary
C) transform 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) lithosphere
D) inner core
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) convergent
B) divergent
C) transform
D) submergent
  • 14. An example of transform boundary can be found between the
A) Indian and Eurasian Plates
B) African and South American 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) The Big Bang Theory
B) Trench Theory
C) Theory of Plate Tectonics
D) Theory of Continental Drift
  • 17. If the mantle cooled and convection currents stopped moving...
A) earthquakes would shake the crust
B) volcanoes would erupt
C) The plates would stop moving
D) All of these
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) mountains
B) new sea floor
C) bassalt
D) fossils
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 4.5 thousand
B) 14 billion
C) 4.5 billion
D) 4.5 million
  • 20. Oceanic crust is formed by seafloor spreading
A) false
B) true
  • 21. The Mid-Atlantic is closest to ________
A) The Pacific Plate
B) India
C) California
D) Maine
  • 22. The Indian Plate and the Eurasian plate form a transform boundary
A) false
B) true
  • 23. The Himalayan continue to get taller
A) false
B) true
  • 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) The continents
B) The Earth's Core
C) Mountain ranges
D) Seafloor Spreading
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