What are the 9 major plates and 8 minor plates?

Answer 1

There are many Tectonic plates on Earth. There is the African Plate, Antarctic plate, Eurasian Plate, Indo Australian plate, North American Plate, Pacific plate, South African Plate, Arabian Plate, Caribbean Plate, Cocos Plate, Indian Plate, and Juan de Fuca Plate.

Answer 2

The 9 major plates are: Pacific Plate, North American Plate, Eurasian Plate, African Plate, Antarctic Plate, Indo-Australian Plate, South American Plate, Caribbean Plate, and Arabian Plate. The 8 minor plates include: Nazca Plate, Cocos Plate, Philippine Sea Plate, Juan de Fuca Plate, Scotia Plate, Somali Plate, Burma Plate, and the Caroline Plate.

Answer 3

Major plates- North American, South American, African, Eurasian, Australian, Antarctic, And Pacific

Minor Plates- Arabian, Nazca, Cocos, Caribbean, Juan De Fuca, Indian, Somali, Scotia and Filipino

There are only 7 major plates and there 9 minor plates.