Flexi Says: There are seven major tectonic plates of Earth, and they cover 95% of the surface. Each plate is named for the continent or ocean basin it contains. They are the Pacific plate, the North American plate, the Eurasian plate, the African plate, the Antarctic plate, the Indo-Australia plate, and the South American plate. The Pacific plate is the largest of all the tectonic plates and measures 103,300,000 square kilometers in area.
