6.10 CD Review: Tectonic Plates

Huge pieces of lithosphere that slowly move on the asthenosphere and consist of the crust and the rigid, uppermost part of the mantle are called...

• ceramic plates

• tectonic plates

• earth plates

• layered plates

A tectonic plate that includes the continental crust of Greenland, North America, Siberia, and the surrounding oceanic crust is the...

• Eurasian Plate

• North American Plate

• South American Plate

• African Plate

Division of lithosphere including most of the land masses of Europe and Asia is the...

• North American Plate

• South American Plate

• Eurasian Plate

• Pacific Plate

A tectonic plate that includes the continental crust of Africa and the surrounding oceanic crust is the...

• South American Plate

• Pacific Plate

• Antarctic Plate

• African Plate

A tectonic plate that includes the continental crust of South America and the oceanic crust extending to the Mid-Atlantic ridge is the...

• North American Plate

• Eurasian Plate

• South American Plate

• Pacific Plate

A tectonic plate that includes the continental crust of India and Australia and the surrounding oceanic crust is the...

• North American Plate

• South American Plate

• Indo-Australian Plate

• Pacific Plate

A tectonic plate that is composed entirely of oceanic crust and lies beneath the Pacific Ocean is the...

• North American Plate

• South American Plate

• Pacific Plate

• Indo-Australian Plate

A tectonic plate that includes the continental crust of Antarctica and the surrounding oceanic crust is the...

• North American Plate

• South American Plate

• African Plate

• Antarctic Plate

Density is the amount of matter in a given space or volume; the oceanic crust is thinner, but denser, than continental crust. This sentence describes...

• the volume of plates

• the density of plates

• the thickness of plates

• the food on the plates

Crust can be either oceanic, which is thin and dense, or continental, which is thick and less dense; both are known as crust rock material.

• True

• False