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Identifying Earth’s Lithospheric Plates

Answer 1

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Lithospheric plates move on top of the asthenosphere (the outer plastically deforming region of Earth's mantle). The term "plate" is deceptive. Remembering that Earth is an oblate sphere, lithospheric plates are not flat, but curved and fractured into curved sections akin to the peeled sections of an orange.

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Answer 2

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There are major, minor and micro tectonic plates. There are seven major plates: African, Antarctic, Eurasian, Indo-Australian, North American, Pacific and South American. The Hawaiian Islands were created by the Pacific Plate, which is the world's largest plate at 39,768,522 square miles.