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