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Why does a compass have a red arrow and a white arrow?
compasses point because of Earth's magnetic field for example, if you think of the Earth as having a big bar magnet in it, then the South end of the magnet would be in the North Pole and the North end in the South pole. then, the natural "Opposites Attract" rule comes into play.
Where is the northern hemisphere pointing?
The Northern Hemisphere is always pointing towards the North Pole, which is located at approximately 90 degrees north latitude. This is why the North Pole experiences six months of continuous daylight during the summer solstice.
The needle on a compass is always pointing to what pole?
The north pole.
Why does the North Pole only have one sunset?
Due to the tilt of the Earth. The North pole is pointing at the sun and is light or, as the Earth rotates around the sun and the South pole is pointing at sun, then the North pole is dark.
Can a compass needle pointing north end you up in the geographical north pole of earth?
no
What makes the needle on the compass always pointy north?
We know that it is a natural property for a magnet to attract unlike poles Earth itself is a bar magnet..So there is a tiny magnet in the compass which makes it to get attracted to north pole (i.e-Magnetic south pole is Geographic North pole,Magnetic North pole is Geographic South pole)That is -when compass is pointing North pole(magnectically)It is pointing Geographic South pole... Thanks**** Hope it was helpful!!!!
The arrow on magnetic field lines shows them flowing in which direction?
Technically from the north pole to the south pole
Why a freely suspended magnet always rest in north and south direction?
A magnet aligns itself along the earth's magnetic field, with its north pole pointing to a location called 'Magnetic North', so called to distinguish it from 'True North'. The magnetic polarity of the location we call 'Magnetic North' is south.
What words describe the north Pole?
It is cold, windy, foggy, snowy, big, and......
Why do explorers in the Arctic and Antarctic rarely use a compass to find the orientation?
Explorers working on either pole of the earth don't use compasses because they don't work accurately so far north or so far south. The way a compass works is by using a magnet with a "north" pole and a "south" pole. If you've ever held two magnets near each other, you may have noticed that they will either stick together or push apart. That's because of their poles. North and south stick together, but north and north or south and south will not.The earth is like a gigantic magnet. Its north pole is the same as the south pole of a magnet, so on a compass the north arrow points towards the north pole.You could think of it this way: at the north pole and the south pole the compass won't work because the north pole is all one side of a magnet and the south pole is all the other side of it. So when you have a compass at the north pole, it's both attracted and repelled at the same time so it ends up pointing in some random direction or toward the closest piece of metal that a magnet will stick to.Now let's pretend for a moment that you have a really fancy compass that works accurately even at the north pole. If you used the compass to find your way all the way to the very tip of the earth, you would be at the most north point. If you then went true east (east according to a map) then your compass would do something funny. Instead of pointing north, your compass would be pointing west!
If you follow a compass pointing north will you reach the geographic north pole?
No. You will reach to the North Magnetic Pole instead, which is a fair distance from the True North Pole, as the magnet always points North due to Earth's magnetic fields. The distance between the two North Poles are also changing, as Earth's magnetic fields will turn. The current South Pole will be the next North Magnetic Pole in the far future.
Why is one part of a magnet called a north pole?
A: Imagine a large pole being shoved into the earth and come out the other end. This is called the earth's axis. It's an imaginary rod that the earth spins around once a day. at the top of the earth is the north pole while the bottom of the earth is the south pole.The North Police is also called the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole.
