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Plates and Plate Boundaries
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) South American Plate
B) North American Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) Pacific Plate
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) Pacific Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) North American Plate
E) Eurasian 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) Nazca Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) African Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) North American Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) South American Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) African Plate
D) North American Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) Indo-Australian Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 9. The boundary formed by the collision of two lithospheric plates
A) transform boundary
B) divergent boundary
C) convergent boundary
  • 10. The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
A) convergent boundary
B) divergent 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) lithosphere
C) asthenosphere
D) inner core
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) convergent
B) divergent
C) submergent
D) transform
  • 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) air currents
C) ocean currents
D) convection 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) All of these
B) volcanoes would erupt
C) The plates would stop moving
D) earthquakes would shake the crust
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) fossils
B) new sea floor
C) mountains
D) bassalt
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 4.5 million
B) 14 billion
C) 4.5 thousand
D) 4.5 billion
  • 20. Oceanic crust is formed by seafloor spreading
A) true
B) false
  • 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) 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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