The world is a "oblate spheroid" because it is not a perfect circle. The Earth bulges out around the equator.
The northern hemisphere.
The equator is the line made up of every point on Earth at zero latitude.
A windless zone at the Earth's equator where air rises almost straight up is called the doldrums. This equatorial region is in the Atlantic Ocean.
The Earth is not a perfect sphere. The rotation of the planet has caused the Earth to 'bulge' to a certain extent. The distance around the Equator is further than any other measurement of the circumference.
The equator has a slightly larger circumference than the north south measurement.
No, it slightly bulges at the equator, and is a bit flat on the North and South Poles.
The moon because the earth bulges at he equator so its like a disk, so the moon is rounder
Plate tectonics, rotation, and gravitational pull of the Sun, shift the Earth slightly, so that the Earth bulges near the Equator.
Because the earth is not a perfect sphere and bulges slightly at the equator you are further from the centre of the earth and you would weigh very slightly less at the equator than at the poles.
Gravity is strongest at the Earth's poles and weakest at the equator. This is because the Earth bulges at the equator due to its rotation, creating a slightly greater distance from the center of the Earth to points on the equator, thus reducing the gravitational force experienced there.
Because the Earth is spinning - at about 1000 miles per hour at the equator.
It depends how you measure it. The Earth bulges at the equator as it is an ellipsoidThe diameter of the earth at the equator is 7,926.41 miles (12,756.32 kilometers).If you measure the earth through the poles the diameter is a bit shorter - 7,901 miles (12,715.43 km).
Earth is an oblate spheroid due to its rotation causing a centrifugal force that pushes material outward at the equator. This bulging at the equator is a result of the Earth's rotation, the centrifugal force causes the equatorial region to push outward, counteracting gravity and giving the Earth a slightly flattened shape.
Earth is not perfectly sphere, the Earth bulges at its equator for it is spinning very fast on its axis.
The world is a "oblate spheroid" because it is not a perfect circle. The Earth bulges out around the equator.
The mass of the earth is not great enough to force itself into a perfect sphere. This is because the motion of the earth rotating forces the centre to bulge outwards. As the rotation of the earth slows down, so does the bulge at the equator.