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What is the imaginary line around the earth used in air and sea navigation?
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∙ 14y ago
This imaginary line is called the great circle. A great circle is the shortest distance between two point on a sphere. On a flat map the great circle route takes the shape of the arc of a circle due to the projection method used to fit the path on the earth's sphere to a flat surface.
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The imaginary line around the middle of the earth?
the equator is the imaginary line around the earth.
Is the equator an imaginary line around which the earth rotates?
The equator is an imaginary line which indicates where the middle of the earth is and it goes around.
Imaginary line around which earth spins?
The imaginary line between the poles of the Earth around which the Earth spins is called the "axis of rotation".
What is the eath's axis mean?
That refers to the imaginary line, from the north pole to the south pole, around which Earth rotates.That refers to the imaginary line, from the north pole to the south pole, around which Earth rotates.That refers to the imaginary line, from the north pole to the south pole, around which Earth rotates.That refers to the imaginary line, from the north pole to the south pole, around which Earth rotates.
What is the imaginary line that the earth spins on?
The imaginary line between the poles of the Earth around which the Earth spins is called the "axis of rotation".
What is the imaginary line around which earth which the earth spins?
axis
What is the imaginary line around the centre of the earth?
The equator
What is the imaginary line the earth rotates around?
the equator.
Imaginary line around the middle of earth?
The line your referring to is the Equator.
What is the imaginary line around the earth that makes it spin?
There is no such line. The imaginary line through its centre is the axis, which the Earth rotates around; the imaginary line an equal distance from the poles is the equator. Neither make it spin - that is caused by momentum from the planet's formation.
Earth spins around an imaginary line called?
Earth spins on a imaginary line called an Axis that's what it rotates on aswell. An axis has an angel for the Earth to spin on. An Equator is another imaginary line.
10. Imaginary line that goes around the earth?
Equator
