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Big Plates
1.Pacific Plate
2.North American Plate3.
3.Caribbean Plate
4.South American Plate
5.African Plate
6.Eurasian Plate
7.Arabian Plate
8.Indian Australian Plate
Small Plates
1.Juan de Fuca Plate
2.Cocos Plate
3.Nazca Plate
4.Scotia Plate
5.Antarctic Plate
6.Philippine Plate
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoThe theory of plate tectonics explains large scale motion of the earth's lithosphere. Tectonic plates are rigid slabs of the earth's lithosphere (crust and upper mantle) in which float and move with the continents they carry.
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∙ 13y agocovergent, divergent, transform, and diffuse
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What earth plates spread apart slowly?
Divergent plates are tectonic earth plates that spread slowly apart.
What are the plates move around the earth?
tectonic plates
What is the Earth's crust broken into large pieces called?
They are called plates!
How does earth plates move?
The Earth's plates move due to the high pressure of the hot earth's core jostling them around
Each huge block of earth's crust is called?
Large pieces of the Earth's crust are called tectonic plates. Currently, there are 7 to 8 major tectonic plates in the Earth's crust.
What kind of plates are made up of the earth?
The Earth's plates are called tectonic plates.
Where the plates are located in earth?
The plates in earth are located in the litmosphere.
How many plates in earth crust?
There are 43 plates on the earth.
When were the plates of the earth connected?
the plates of the earth is the bottom of claled the phone
What do you call the pieces of the Earth's crust?
The different pieces that the Earth's crust is broken into are known as tectonic plates.
What earth plates spread apart slowly?
Divergent plates are tectonic earth plates that spread slowly apart.
What layer of the earth has plates?
The lithosphere has plates.
How many plates are in the crustal plates?
There are 14 crustal plates on the earth.
How does earth affect surface area?
the plates move so it is the movement of the plates in the earth
How many minor plates in the Earth?
20 plates
Who named plates as in earth plates?
Edison Thomas
What are the plates move around the earth?
tectonic plates
