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How can the Earth be only 7900 miles in diameter if North America is 5400 miles long and South America is 4500 miles long?
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The answer is that the Earth is a sphere, and the curved distance along its surface is much longer than the straight-line distance from one side to the other. For a circle of diameter 7900 miles, the circumference is 7900 x pi or about 24,800 miles. The actual circumference of Earth averages 24,900 miles. Half of this is the distance from pole to pole along the surface or 12,450 miles, plenty of space for North America, South America, the Arctic Ocean, and Antarctica all in a line.
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What is earths diamiter?
The diameter of the planet Earth is about 8,000 miles. The equatorial diameter of the Earth is 12,756 kilometres, the North Pole to South Pole diameter is 12,712 km.
Is South America south or north of the equater?
The Equator crosses South America, about 20% of South America is north of the equator and 80% is south of the equator.Both, actually. The equator line runs through the northern part. But, the majority of South America is south of the equator.
Name of a imaginary line drawn through earth from north to south pole that ends in a R?
In the globe it is called the axis. In a sphere it is called the diameter.
Which continents touch the 70 degree west line of longitude?
The 60th meridian west traverses the following: Greenland Canada Barbados (territorial waters) Guyana Brazil Paraguay Argentina Falkland Islands Antarctica
What continent is closet to the south pole?
There are seven continents in the world. Among the seven, Antarctica is on the southernmost of the Earth and it includes the South Pole.
Is South America north or south of the US?
South America is south of the US. The US, part of North America, occupies part of the Earth's northern hemisphere, while South America takes up part of the Earth's southern hemisphere.
What direction is antarctica from south America?
NorthNorth - All land masses are north of AntarcticaEvery location on earth is north of Antarctica.Every country on earth -- every continent on earth -- is north of Antarctica. This includes all the countries in South America.
There are six continents on the earth.?
There are seven continents on earth; North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica.
What is the size of the earth from north to south pole?
The diameter of the Earth from North pole to South pole is 7,899.83 miles. This is only 25 miles less then the distance around the equator, which is 7,926.41.
What continet is north of s America?
The continent that is north of South America is North America. North America is the third largest continent on Earth and contains Mexico, the USA and Canada.
What is south of North America?
South of North America is South America.
Is South America north of Antarctica?
Yes. Every continent on earth is north of Antarctica.
Is US of America in the south or the north of America?
South America
In which compass direction do you move from antarctica to south America?
Everywhere on earth is north of Antarctica.
What are the name of the 7 continent on earth?
Africa Antarctica Asia Australia Europe North America South America
What part of the earth is Mexico on?
North America, south of the United States.
What direction would you travel from South America to Antarctica?
Since the earth is a sphere (a ball), you can reach anywhere by going either direction from anywhere. But the trip is usually shorter in one direction than in the other. From the Prime Meridian, the trip to North America or South America is shorter if you head out going toward the west.
