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The axis is an imaginary line that passes through the North and South poles. The Earth rotates on its axis, completing a full rotation each day.

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Q: The axis is an imaginary line that passes through which two points on the earth?
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What are the points where the Earth's axis passes through the Earth's surface?

They are the poles.


Which is the imaginary line which passes through earth?

The equator or the axis is what you're thinking of


What is the axis of rotation?

the imaginary line that passes through the earth's north and south pole while it rotates


What do you call the imaginary line that passes through the center of the earth between north and south poles on which the earth rotates?

prime meridian


What is the imaginary line that passes Through earth's axis called?

In astronomy it is called the axial tilt (also called obliquity) and sometimes just called the imaginary axis.


What is axis in planets?

The axis is the imaginary line that a planet rotates about, The earth's axis passes through the North and South poles.


Can ever north and south poles meet?

No. They're the points where the imaginary pencil that the Earth spins on pokes through the Earth's surface.


The ends of the earths axis are imaginary points known as?

The ends of the earth's axis are imaginary points known as celestial poles. There are north and south celestial poles of the earth.


What is the prime meridian from which longitude is calculated?

the earth's zero of longitude, which by convention passes through Greenwich, England.


Is the equator?

Equator is a line that passes around the earth halfway between the poles. It is a great circle. All parallels are drawn completely around the earth with all points equidistant from the equator.


What imaginary line circles earth halfway between those points?

the equator


What happens when the moon passes through the earth's penumbra?

When the moon passes through the earth's penumbra there is a partial eclipse of the moon for those on the side of the earth facing the moon. If it passes through the umbra, the eclipse is total.