•Scientist believed that about

two hundred million years ago

the Earth’s surface was once a
huge super continent called
Pangaea surrounded by one
ocean.
•A Plate is a rigid block of Earth’s
crust. About 50-150 kilometers thick.
•Some plates contain both continental
and oceanic crust
•Some contain only the oceanic crust.
•Others contain only the continental
crust.
•Forces acting on this super
continent caused it to break into
several big and small pieces.
•After millions of years the super
continent continued to break into
separate crustal plates.
•Scientist have identified seven (7) major plates.
1. Pacific plate
2. North American plate
3. South American plate
4. African plate
5. Eurasian plate
6. Australian plate
7. Antarctic plate
The pacific plate is an oceanic plate, the rest are
continental plates consisting of land masses.