longitude and latitude grids mark the globe for points of reference to the foot in degrees. then the globe is divided with alphabetical letters starting with a in greenwhich or 0000hours then moves around the globe from the 0 hour to the right until it reaches one hour before itself itself 2400 later so each zone is assigned a letter of the alphabet a-b-c and the hour is in conjunction with the letter so a=0 b=1 c=2 and so on until x is 2400
Wikipedia says that the largest major plate is the Pacific, and that the smallest minor plate is Juan de Fuca. So that must be the correct answer after all.
