WorksheetsPlate Tectonic Quiz
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which letter is the North American Plate?
a)
B
b)
A
c)
E
d)
C
2.
Which letter is the South American Plate?
a)
B
b)
A
c)
E
d)
C
3.
Which letter is the Antarctica Plate?
a)
B
b)
A
c)
E
d)
C
4.
What letter is the Indo-Australian Plate?
a)
A
b)
B
c)
E
d)
F
5.
What Color line is the "ring of fire"?
a)
Red
b)
Green
c)
Blue
d)
Pink
6.
Which letter is the Eurasian Plate?
a)
B
b)
A
c)
E
d)
C
7.
Which letter is the African Plate?
a)
B
b)
A
c)
E
d)
C
8.
Which letter is the Pacific Plate?
a)
F
b)
A
c)
E
d)
D
9.
Name the scientist that came up with Plate Tectonic theory.
a)
Alfred Mosiac
b)
Alfred Wagner
Ben Franklin
Ben Franklin
c)
Alfred Franklin
Alfred Wagner
Alfred Wagner
d)
Alfredo Wagon
Ben Dougin
Ben Dougin
10.
What causes earth quakes?
a)
melting of the crust
b)
Subduction
spreading continents
spreading continents
c)
strain and shifting on a fault line
d)
Weather
11.
Matching coastlines, mountain ranges and fossils led a scientist to come to
a)
the theory of continental drift
b)
plate tectonics
c)
earth quakes
d)
volcanos
12.
What is an ocean basin?
a)
When plates collide and form ridges
b)
when plates move apart and new ocean floor is created
c)
when plates collide and cause energy to be released
d)
when one plate subducts under another causing a hot spot and a volcano erupts in the ocean
13.
What part of the earth does plat tectonics involve?
a)
inner core, outer core, and crust
b)
crust and mantle
c)
lithosphere and atmosphere
d)
crust and inner core
14.
What 2 plates does the mid Atlantic ridge touch
a)
South American & Australian
b)
Pacific and South American
c)
Mexican and South American
d)
South American and African
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