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The Antarctic plate is the tectonic plate under the continent of Antarctica. It extends northward below the oceans to where it meets the Nazca, South American, African, Indo-Australian, and Scotia Plates and forms a divergent boundary along the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge.
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What type of plate is the antarctic plate?
an ocean plate
What are crystal plates?
African Plate, Antarctic Plate, Australian Plate, Eurasian Plate, North American Plate's American Plate, Pacific Plate
Which two continents whose edges are not at all on the plate boundary?
Australia is in the middle of the Australian-Indian plate. Antarctica has its own plate, but the actual continent doesn't get near the plate boundary. It's plate is called, oddly enough, the Antarctic plate. Who would have figured? You could say that Africa's edges aren't on plate boundaries, but there are some places in northern Africa that get pretty close to being on a boundary.
What type of boundary exists between the African plate and the Antarctic plate?
They are divergent plates
Are Pacific plate north American plate cocos plate nazca plate south American plate African Plate Eurasian Plate Indian Plate Australian Plate and Antarctic Plate the Major Tectonic Plates?
Yes the Pacific Plate, North American Plate, Cocos Plate, Nazca Plate, South American Plate, African Plate, Eurasian Plate, Indian Plate, Australian Plate, and Antarctic Plate are the major tectonic plates.
What countries lie on the Antarctic Plate?
The Antarctic plate is the tectonic plate that the continent of Antarctic. There are no countries on the Antarctic Plate.
Is the antarctic plate an oceanic or continental plate?
The Antarctic plate is Oceanic.
What type of plate is the antarctic plate?
an ocean plate
What direction does the antarctic plate move?
The western and eastern sides of the Antarctic plate are currently moving away from each other.
Which plate appears to have little or no movement at all?
Antarctic plate !
Is the Antarctic plate oceanic?
The Antarctic Plate contains portions of both oceanic and continental crust. Antarctica itself is continental crust.
What are plate boundairies?
plate boundary's are pacific plate African plate north amercian plate Eurasian plate antarctic plate.
What type of plate movement is mount erebus?
The Antarctic Plate.
Is the Pacific tectonic plate bigger than the Antarctic plate?
Yes!!
What two plates are moving away from each other?
1. Pacific Plate and North American Plate 2. China Plate and Pacific Plate 3. Australian Plate and Pacific Plate 4. South American Plate and Nazca Plate 5. Eurasian Plate and African Plate 6. Eurasian Plate and Arabian Plate 7. Eurasian Plate and Australian PLATE 8. Scotia Plate and Antarctic Plate
What type of plate boundary exists between the African plate and the Antarctic plate?
They are divergent plates
What are the seven major crustal plates?
1. Pacific Plate2. North American plate3. South American Plate4.African Plate5. Eurasian plate6. Australian plateand last but not least7. Antarctic plate
