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Plate Tectonics

Total questions: 9

Worksheet time: 17mins

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1.

The Indo-Australian Plate is colliding with the

a)

Eurasian plate

b)

North American plate

c)

Antarctic Plate

2.

What is the identity of Plate X?

a)

Eurasian Plate

b)

North American Plate

c)

African plate

3.

What type of boundary is occurring between the South American Plate and the Nazca Plate?

a)

convergent

b)

divergent

c)

transform

4.

What is Plate Y?

a)

North American plate

b)

South American plate

c)

African plate

5.

What is plate Z?

a)

North American plate

b)

Indo-Australian plate

c)

Eurasian plate

6.

Which of the following appears to cause movement of Earth's tectonic plates?

a)

convection currents below the lithosphere

b)

energy from the sun

c)

conduction of heat through contact

7.

What type of plate creates a rift valley?

a)

convergent

b)

divergent

c)

transform

8.

What type of plate makes a mid-ocean ridge?

a)

convergent

b)

divergent

c)

transform

9.

When two oceanic plates collide, what is created?

a)

trench

b)

mid-ocean ridge

c)

rift balley