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World Tectonic Plates

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Name the plate labelled "C"

a)

north american plate

b)

nazca plate

c)

indian plate

d)

african plate

2.

What is the name of the tectonic plate labelled "D"

a)

Eurasian plate

b)

North America plate

c)

Antarctica plate

d)

Cocos plate

3.

What is the name of the plate labelled "Q"

a)

Arabian plate

b)

South American plate

c)

Cocos plate

d)

Carribean plate

4.

The plate labelled "P" is known as the

a)

South American Plate

b)

North American Plate

c)

Nazca Plate

d)

Carribean plate

5.

Name the tectonic plate labelled "K"

a)

Juan De Fuca

b)

Nazca

c)

Carribean

d)

Cocos

6.

Plate B is also known as ?

a)

Antarctica plate

b)

African plate

c)

South American plate

d)

Eurasian plate

7.

Plate "E" is ..........

a)

Philippine plate

b)

Indo Australian plate

c)

Indian plate

d)

Arabian plate

8.

Plate F is also known as the ....................

a)

Pacific plate

b)

Indo-Australian plate

c)

African plate

d)

Eurasian plate

9.

This plate labelled "M" is called the .................?

a)

Nazca plate

b)

Cocos plate

c)

Juan De Fuca plate

d)

Carribean plate

10.

The plate labelled "L" is ?

a)

Jucan De Fuca plate

b)

Nazca plate

c)

South American plate

d)

Pacific plate

11.

Plate labelled "H" is the ____________ plate?

a)

South American plate

b)

Cocos plate

c)

North American plate

d)

African plate

12.

"N" is the __________________ plate

a)

Pacific plate

b)

Antarctica plate

c)

Eurasian plate

d)

Indo-Australian plate

13.

The plate labelled "A" is the ______________ plate

a)

Pacific plate

b)

Arabian plate

c)

Philippines plate

d)

Carribean plate

14.

"G" is the ____________________ plate

a)

North American

b)

Cocos

c)

Nazca

d)

Juan de Fuca

e)

South American

15.
The ______ is the layer of the Earth under the crust.
a)
core
b)
mantle
c)
magma
d)
none of the above
16.

What are Tectonic plates?

a)

Large moving pieces on Earth's surface that are made of rock.

b)

where two plates divide

c)

The inner core of the earth

d)

where magma rises up and solidifies

17.

What is the Asthenosphere?

a)

Huge supercontinent

b)

Where two plates slide

c)

The upper layer of the Earth's mantle, below the lithosphere.

d)

surrounds the moon

18.

What was the name of the theory given to how the Earth is broken into pieces that are slowly moving?

a)

Slow mover theory

b)

Flow theory

c)

Crackle theory

d)

Plate tectonic theory

19.

The large pieces of the Earth's crust are called:

a)

Tectonic plates

b)

Land ridges

c)

Continental chunks

d)

none of the above

20.

Which color would be the innercore?

a)

yellow

b)

orange

c)

red

d)

the earth on the outside

21.

Which color would be the outercore?

a)

Outside on the earth

b)

red

c)

orange

d)

yellow

22.

Which color would the mantle be?

a)

Outside on the earth

b)

red

c)

orange

d)

yellow

23.

Which layer is made of the crust and solid, upper part of the mantle.

a)

Lithosphere

b)

Asthenosphere

c)

Outer core

d)

Inner core

24.

Which part of the earth's core is liquid?

a)

Outer core

b)

Inner core

25.

Which part of the earth's core is solid and dense?

a)

Outer core

b)

Inner core

26.
Identify the Major Plate labeled J
a)
African Plate
b)
Antarctic Plate
c)
Pacific Plate
d)
Eurasian Plate