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    The document summarizes tectonic plates, noting that Earth's crust and upper mantle are fractured into lithospheric plates that move across the deeper mantle. It explains that plates likely developed early in Earth's 4.6 billion year history and have drifted at the surface like bumper cars colliding and separating. The document then lists the 7 major plates - African, Antarctic, Indo-Australian, Eurasian, North American, South American, and Pacific - and 7 minor plates, including the Arabian, Caribbean, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Nazca, Scotia, and Philippine Plates.

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    The document summarizes tectonic plates, noting that Earth's crust and upper mantle are fractured into lithospheric plates that move across the deeper mantle. It explains that plates likely developed early in Earth's 4.6 billion year history and have drifted at the surface like bumper cars colliding and separating. The document then lists the 7 major plates - African, Antarctic, Indo-Australian, Eurasian, North American, South American, and Pacific - and 7 minor plates, including the Arabian, Caribbean, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Nazca, Scotia, and Philippine Plates.

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    Lithospheric Plates

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    Carla Marie Perez
    The document summarizes tectonic plates, noting that Earth's crust and upper mantle are fractured into lithospheric plates that move across the deeper mantle. It explains that plates likely developed early in Earth's 4.6 billion year history and have drifted at the surface like bumper cars colliding and separating. The document then lists the 7 major plates - African, Antarctic, Indo-Australian, Eurasian, North American, South American, and Pacific - and 7 minor plates, including the Arabian, Caribbean, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Nazca, Scotia, and Philippine Plates.

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    The

    Lithospheric
    Plates
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    Lithospheric plates are regions
    of Earth’s crust and upper mantle
    that are fractured into plates that
    move across a deeper plasticine
    mantle

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    Tectonic plates probably got
    developed in the earlier period of
    the Earth's 4.6-billion-year old
    history. They have been drifting on
    the surface ever since-like slow-
    moving bumper cars repeatedly
    clustering together and then
    separating each other.

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    7 MAJOR PLATES

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    African Plate

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    Antarctic Plate

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    Indo-Australian Plate

    This plate subdivided into 2

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    Antarctic Plate

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    Australian Plate

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    Eurasian Plate

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    North American Plate

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    South American Plate

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    Pacific Plate

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    7 MINOR PLATES

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    Arabian Plate

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    Caribbean Plate

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    Juan de Fuca Plate

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    Cocos Plate

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    Nazca Plate

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    Scotia Plate

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    Philippine Plate

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    THANKS!

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