What is the largest lithosphere plate?

The Pacific Plate is the largest plate on the planet. Credit: Dylan Prentiss, Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara For more info: http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~dylan/mtpe/geosphere/topics/pt/plate_tectonics.html. read more

Video: Major Plates of the Lithosphere: Earth's Tectonic Plates The outer shell of the earth, the lithosphere, is broken up into tectonic plates. The seven major plates are the African plate, Antarctic plate, Eurasian plate, Indo-Australian plate, North American plate, Pacific plate and South American plate. read more

The seven major lithospheric plates are the African plate, Antarctic plate, Eurasian plate, Indo-Australian plate, North American plate, South American plate and Pacific plate. These are also called Earth's tectonic plates, and there are actually more tectonic plates than just these seven, including several smaller microplates such as the Philippine plate in the Pacific Ocean. read more