There should be a "choose selected answer" drop down menu where the answer box usually is. If you're not seeing that then I would recommend contacting JetPunk.
Anatolian plate isn't generally considered a distinct plate. Once you go there, then you have to start worrying about Nubian and Somalian plates, and East and West Antarctica plates. Plus all sorts of smaller plates like the Sandwich and various ones in the Philippine/Australia region.
Why is the Juan de Fuca Plate considered to be a major tectonic plate? There are other such small tectonic plates not included here, such as the Aegean Plate and the Anatolian Plate.
The Juan de Fuca plate, along with the Cocos and Nazca plates, are the remnants of the now mostly subducted Farallon plate. It is also the site of the Raff & Mason magnetic anomaly map that led, in part, to the seminal Vine & Matthews paper on sea-floor spreading that ushered in plate tectonic theory.
Messed up on this the first time because I had no idea that the box of answers continued below the bottom, so I never scrolled down. Was very confused by the limited options.
Quiz is wrong. There are only seven major tectonic plates that are recognised by Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tectonic_plates?oldformat=true#Major_plates
Some of the plates in this quiz are actually regarded as "minor" plates, and some are even regarded as "microplates".
Got 11
Nice quiz, nomned! :)
The only reason I knew the Juan de Fuca one was due to the long distance hiking trail of the same name on Vancouver island
Some of the plates in this quiz are actually regarded as "minor" plates, and some are even regarded as "microplates".