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It is a suitable name because tectonics comes from the Greek word tekton which means builder, and plate tectonics refers to the building of the features on Earth's surface due to deformation caused by plate movements...

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Plate tectonics is the name of the theory. The plates are actually call tectonic plates. There are: * African Plate * Antarctic Plate * Arabian Plate * Australian Plate * Caribbean Plate * Cocos Plate * Eurasian Plate * Indian Plate * Juan de Fuca Plate * Nazca Plate * North American Plate * Pacific Plate * Philippine Sea Plate * Scotia Plate * South American Plate * ** Aegean Sea Plate (or Hellenic Plate) ** Altiplano Plate ** Amurian Plate ** Anatolian Plate ** Apulian Plate ** Balmoral Reef Plate ** Banda Sea Plate ** Bird's Head Plate ** Burma Plate ** Caroline Plate ** Conway Reef Plate ** Easter Plate ** Futuna Plate ** Galapagos Plate ** Halmahera Plate ** Iranian Plate ** Jan Mayen Plate ** Juan Fernandez Plate ** Kermadec Plate ** Kula Plate ** Manus Plate ** Maoke Plate ** Mariana Plate ** Molucca Sea Plate ** New Hebrides Plate ** Niuafo'ou Plate ** North Andes Plate ** North Bismarck Plate ** Okhotsk Plate ** Okinawa Plate ** Panama Plate ** Philippine Microplate ** Rivera Plate ** Sangihe Plate ** South Sandwich Plate ** Shetland Plate ** Solomon Sea Plate ** Somali Plate ** South Bismarck Plate ** Sunda Plate ** Timor Plate ** Tonga Plate ** Woodlark Plate ** Yangtze Plate Ancient plates: * Baltic Plate * Bellingshausen Plate * Charcot Plate * Cimmerian Plate * Farallon Plate * Insular Plate * Intermontane Plate * Izanagi Plate * Lhasa Plate * Moa Plate * Phoenix Plate Plates within orogens Some models identify more minor plates within current orogens. * Apulian Plate * Explorer Plate * Gorda Plate

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Because they just do ??

Makes them easier to remember? And easier to classify.

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Tectonic plates are named depending on locations in the world. An example is Pacific Plate found in the Pacific Ocean.

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it got its name from the latin term tectonicus meaning "pertaining to building".

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They do that because it makes it easier to talk about them when they each have a name of their own.

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Because it is the earth's crust that are split into diffrent plates ie. Europe and Africa are on diffrent plates of the world's crust. :)

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because they crash together like plates. By year 6.

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To identify them.

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