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Plates and Plate Boundaries - Quiz
Beigesteuert von: Trieu
(Ursprünglicher Autor: Carlson)
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) Nazca Plate
B) North American Plate
C) South American Plate
D) Pacific Plate
E) Eurasian 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) Pacific Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) African Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Eurasian Plate
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) North American Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) African Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Antarctic Plate
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) South American Plate
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) North American Plate
D) African Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) South American Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) Indo-Australian Plate
D) Antarctic Plate
E) Nazca Plate
  • 9. The boundary formed by the collision of two lithospheric plates
A) convergent boundary
B) transform 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) divergent boundary
B) convergent boundary
C) transform 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) transform
B) convergent
C) divergent
D) submergent
  • 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) air currents
B) convection currents
C) current events
D) ocean currents
  • 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) The plates would stop moving
B) volcanoes would erupt
C) earthquakes would shake the crust
D) All of these
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) mountains
B) fossils
C) bassalt
D) new sea floor
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 4.5 billion
B) 4.5 million
C) 14 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) The Pacific Plate
B) India
C) California
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) Mountain ranges
B) Seafloor Spreading
C) The continents
D) The Earth's Core
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