EARTH SCIENCE
TECTONICS
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Question
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Pacific Plate
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African Plate
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North American Plate
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South American Plate
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Detailed explanation-1: -The North American Plate is a tectonic plate covering most of North America, Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Asia, and parts of Iceland and the Azores.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Florida Platform resides on the North American tectonic plate, but it wasn’t always the case!
Detailed explanation-3: -The northern edge of the South American Plate forms a boundary with the Caribbean Plate and the oceanic crust of the North American Plate. The South American Plate extends eastward to the African Plate. As a result, the two plates are pulled apart from each other.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.