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lithosphere 7 major tectonic plates - Coggle Diagram
lithosphere 7 major tectonic plates
pacific plate
It also includes the hot spot which is formed in Hawaiian island
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA2-Vc4PIOY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ-sVQElqhE
It is the largest tectonic plate ( 103 million square kilometres
he Pacific Plate is a tectonic plate beneath parts of the Pacific Ocean.
indo - Austarlian
It includes the continent of Australia and surrounding ocean.
The Pacific Plate is moving to the northwest at a speed of between 7 and 11 centimeters (cm) or ~3-4 inches a year.
To the northwest it includes the Indian subcontinent and adjacent waters.
It was formed by the fusion of Indian and Australian plates about 43 million years ago.
Indo-Australian plate began to deform internally about 10 million years ago.
As the plate moved northwards, the region near India crunched against the Eurasian plate, thrusting the Himalayas up and slowing India down
Indo-Australian plate, at the centre of which our continent lies, is being pushed to the north-east at about 7cm per year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfNW9lt3WqA
It includes much of the continent of Africa, as well as oceanic crust which lies between the continent and various surrounding ocean ridges.
African
Since the continent of Africa includes both the African and the Somali plates, some literature refers to the African Plate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKBY4aCsnnM
In terms of size, the African Plate is about 61,300,000 km2. This makes it the 4th largest tectonic plate on Earth.
The west side of the African major plate diverge with the North American plate. These divergent plate boundaries forms the mid-oceanic ridges or rift valley.
North American
North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere.
North America covers an area of about 24,709,000 square kilometers (9,540,000 square miles), about 16.5% of the earth's land area and about 4.8% of its total surface.
It can also be considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPCUHB2t0fM
https://youtu.be/-TY51zspmwI
