Plates and Plate Boundaries
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) North American Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Pacific Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Pacific Plate
D) North American Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Pacific Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) African Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) North American Plate
B) African Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Nazca Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) African Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) North American Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) South American Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 9. The boundary formed by the collision of two lithospheric plates
A) divergent boundary
B) transform 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) divergent boundary
B) transform 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) inner core
B) asthenosphere
C) outer core
D) lithosphere
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) submergent
B) transform
C) convergent
D) divergent
  • 14. An example of transform boundary can be found between the
A) African and South American Plates
B) Pacific and North American plates
C) Indian and Eurasian Plates
  • 15. What pushes the plates in different directions
A) air currents
B) ocean currents
C) current events
D) convection currents
  • 16. Alfred Wegener is known for developing what scientific theory?
A) Trench Theory
B) Theory of Plate Tectonics
C) Theory of Continental Drift
D) The Big Bang Theory
  • 17. If the mantle cooled and convection currents stopped moving...
A) earthquakes would shake the crust
B) volcanoes would erupt
C) All of these
D) The plates would stop moving
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) new sea floor
B) bassalt
C) fossils
D) mountains
  • 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) India
B) Maine
C) California
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) 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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