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Plates and Plate Boundaries
Opracowany przez: Trieu
(Autor testu pierwotnego: Carlson)
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) South American Plate
B) Pacific Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) North American Plate
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) North American Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Pacific Plate
E) South American 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) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) South American Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) African Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) North American Plate
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) Nazca Plate
B) North American Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) African 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) transform boundary
B) convergent 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) 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) outer core
B) asthenosphere
C) inner core
D) lithosphere
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) transform
B) submergent
C) convergent
D) divergent
  • 14. An example of transform boundary can be found between the
A) Indian and Eurasian Plates
B) Pacific and North American plates
C) African and South American 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) Trench Theory
B) The Big Bang Theory
C) Theory of Continental Drift
D) Theory of Plate Tectonics
  • 17. If the mantle cooled and convection currents stopped moving...
A) The plates would stop moving
B) volcanoes would erupt
C) All of these
D) earthquakes would shake the crust
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) mountains
B) bassalt
C) fossils
D) new sea floor
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 14 billion
B) 4.5 thousand
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) Maine
B) The Pacific Plate
C) India
D) California
  • 22. The Indian Plate and the Eurasian plate form a transform boundary
A) false
B) true
  • 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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