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Plates and Plate Boundaries
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) North American Plate
D) Pacific Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) South American Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) North American Plate
E) Pacific Plate
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) South American Plate
B) Pacific Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) African Plate
E) Nazca 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) South American Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) African Plate
E) North American Plate
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) South American Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) African Plate
E) North American Plate
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) Indo-Australian 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) transform boundary
B) divergent 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) outer core
B) inner core
C) asthenosphere
D) lithosphere
  • 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) 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) ocean currents
B) convection currents
C) air currents
D) current events
  • 16. Alfred Wegener is known for developing what scientific theory?
A) Trench Theory
B) The Big Bang 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) All of these
C) The plates would stop moving
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 million
B) 14 billion
C) 4.5 billion
D) 4.5 thousand
  • 20. Oceanic crust is formed by seafloor spreading
A) true
B) false
  • 21. The Mid-Atlantic is closest to ________
A) India
B) California
C) The Pacific Plate
D) Maine
  • 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) The continents
B) Seafloor Spreading
C) The Earth's Core
D) Mountain ranges
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