Juan de Fuca
Plate
Pacific
Plate
North
American
574Plate
Cocos
Plate
Nazca
PISTE
Antarctic
Plate
South
American
Plate
African
Plate
Arabilan
Plate
Somalla
Plata
Eurasian
Plate
Indian
Plate
Philippiney
Plate
Australian
Plate
Oceanic ridge or divergent plate boundary Subduction zone or convergent plate boundary -Transform fault
Figure 2-3
Environmental Geology, Second Edition
2014 W. H. Freeman and Company
The figure illustrates the Earth's major tectonic plates.
Which of the following is incorrectly described below?
O The Phillippines plate is an oceanic plate
O The Nazca plate is subducting under the South American
plate.
The eastern edge of the South American plate is in the
middle of the Atlantic Ocean
Boundaries of the continent of Africa coincide with
boundaries of the African Plate'