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What name is given to half circle that continues around the earth?
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The Equator is the line that separates the earth into two hemispheres
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Is the circumference of the earth measured around the surface or the atmosphere?
It is measured around the surface of the earth. The atmosphere has its own measurement excluded from that of the Earth. The Equator is bulged, and the Poles slightly flattened. The figure given is for sea level, and ignores any mountains. The Poles are about 21.4 km closer to the centre of the Earth than the Equator is.
What is the name given to the study of earthquakes and seismic waves that move through and around earth?
This is known as seismology which is a sub branch of geophysics.
What portion of earth receives energy form the sun at any given time?
Since the Earth is a Spheroid shape, (not a true sphere) 50% of its surface is illuminated by the Sun, at any given moment.
What is the Name given to collective mass of water found on under and over the surface of the earth?
The hydrosphere, and it includes all the water on earth.
Given that the moon is 238857 miles from earth what is the order of magnitude of the distance?
5
What name is given to the half circle that contines around earth?
Each meridian is a half-circle from the north pole to the south pole of the earth.
What is the name given to the distance around a circle?
Circumference.
What name is given to the distance around the circle?
Circumference.
Why earth revolves around sun eliptically?
At a given distance from the Sun, only at a very specific spead will it go in an exact circle. And that perfect circle will soon be disturbed by gravitation from other planets, comets, etc.
What is the name given to the distance around the outside of a circle?
Circumference
What is the size of something as given by the distance around it?
The distance around an object is called its perimeter. ------------------------------------------------- Or if it is a circle its circumference.
How many miles does the moon Orbit the Earth?
The Moon does not orbit in a perfect circle around the Earth, so an average distance of 381,550 km is usually given, with the extremes being 356,400 km (closest) and 406,700 km (farthest away)
What is the circumference of the given circle?
We've not been given a circle.
Definition of a meridian?
A circle of constant longitude passing through a given place on the earth's surface and the terrestrial poles.
What is the set of all points in a plane that are a given distance from a given point?
That's a "circle". The given distance is the circle's radius, and the given point is the circle's center.
What name is given to earth's journey around the sun?
Orbit
What is is meridian?
[muh-rid-ee-uhn] -noun a great circle of the earth passing through the poles and any given point on the earth's surface. b. the half of such a circle included between the poles.
