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Equator
The equator is a major line of latitude located at 0 degrees latitude. It divides Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
2,635 Questions
How many degrees are there between the equator and the tropic of cancer?
it is 24 degrees.
23.5 but rounded to what on top^
What are Imaginary lines which run at right angles to the equator?
They are lines of constant latitude, all parallel to the equator.
Which is closer to equator Mexico or Dominican Republic?
NO NO AND A ZILLION NO!!!!!!!!
If ur talking about the Dominican Republic it is still no!
The commonwealth of Dominica is located in the CARIBBEAN!! That's between Guadeloupe and Martinique.
It is beautiful country and i think everyone in the world should visit it.
Why are some parts of Africa cold even through they are near the equator?
places like Kenya and Tanzania where they have high mountains
How many degrees north of equator is Tennessee?
Utah is a big place. It covers the range of latitude from 37° to 42° north.
The state capitol building is located at
40.776° north latitude
111.888° west longitude.
This contributor also recommends the hotel at 40.72556° north, 111.85621° west.
Fifteen minutes from the state capitol or the airport, rooms on the hotel's south side,
away from the street, open onto a patch of undisturbed nature where a tree-shaded
foot-path parallels a stream with real fish in it.
What African country is on the equator and starts with g?
There are several African nations that have names which starts with a g. Some of these countries include Gabon, Guinea Bissau, Ghana, Gambia and many more.
Why are you heavier at the poles than at the equator?
You weigh less at the poles than at the equator due to the little bit of centripetal force trying to fling you off the surface (but gravity is much stronger). Also the earth is not a perfect sphere - it's an oblate spheroid so you are closer to the center of mass at the poles than at the equator and gravity is inversely proportional to the distance between your center of mass and that of the Earth. Your mass doesn't change, just your weight. Gravity near the equator is about 9.782 m/s². Gravity at the North Pole is about 9.832 m/s². You would weigh about 0.5% more at the North Pole than at the equator. the situation is similar at the South Pole but the difference is slightly less because Antarctica is not at sea level. Although land at the South Pole is only about a hundred meters above sea level, the ice sheet above it is roughly 2,700 meters (9,000 feet) thick; the North Pole is much closer to sea level
You will weigh more at the North or South pole than you will at the equator. The difference will be extremely small.
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(from the physics book) You'll weigh more at the pole because you're closer to the earth's center of gravity. That happens because the earth is not a perfect sphere. It is "flattened" at the poles because of the rotation of the earth, and this causes our planet to "bulge" a bit at the equator.
In addition, a person on the equator will have the rotation of the earth trying to "throw them off" the planet. This will subtract a bit more from a person's weight at the equator.
In other words: You weigh LESS at the equator because of --greater distance from the center of mass and --acceleration due to the rotation of the earth. You weigh MORE at either of the poles because --you are closer to the earth's center of gravity and --there is no centripital force at the poles.
Either effect is very small; the difference in a person's weight will be less than one half of one percent. (Less than 0.5%)
If you use a scale that compares your weight to a set of of the scale's own weights, no difference will be seen, because the same forces will be working on those weights. You would have to use a spring scale to get an accurate reading.
Your mass through all this remains the same no matter where you are. It is your weight that varies because weight is a function of mass and gravity.
Which imaginary line divides the earth into south and north?
The Line of Demarcation was an imaginary line of longitude, moved slightly from the line drawn by Pope Alexander VI to divide new lands claimed by Portugal from those of Spain. This line was drawn in 1493 after Christopher Columbus returned from his maiden voyage to the Americas. Territorial disputes between the two seafaring nations led the Pope to adjudicate in the hope that this would lead to peace between the two powers. It allocated territory as between Spain and Portugal, excepting only those areas already ruled by a Christian monarch or power; the interests of the people then inhabiting the affected lands were not otherwise taken into account. As such, the Pope's arbitration could be considered as laying the legal and political foundation for countless other international documents drawn over the next four and a half centuries, based on the implicit or explicit assumption that European powers had the right to divide the rest of the world among themselves without regard to the wishes and aspirations of the peoples living there - an assumption still taken for granted in the Nineteenth Century (for example, in the partition of Africa between colonial powers in the Congress of Berlin) and only gradually coming into question during the Twentieth Century. Thus, Alexander VI can be considered to have laid an important cornerstone in the legal foundation of Colonialism. The line drawn ran north to south about 560 kilometers (350 miles) west of the Azores and Cape Verde islands. On the other side of the globe, it passed just east of the Philippines/Philippine islands. Portugal's claim to the Philippines was recognized by Spain in the Treaty of Saragossa in 1529, which set the longitude 17° east of The Moluccas & The Spice Islands. Portugal was allowed to claim land to the east of this line, and Spain to the west. The line was never surveyed and many historians suppose that it was near the 48° longitude. It also just missed crossing the South American coast which had not yet been discovered. However, neither nation was satisfied with this settlement, and a year later they mutually agreed by the Treaty of Tordesillas (signed in 1494) to shift the line 2,000 km (1,300 miles) to the west of the Cape Verde Islands. This later gave the Portuguese the claim to Brazil. In later treaties between the two nations, Portugal gave up its claim to the Philippines in exchange for the south and west areas in South America (now Brazil) beyond the Line of Demarcation. Although the line was created to settle territorial disputes between the sole powers at that time, it did not take into account the rise of other powers such as France, nor the Protestant nations of United Kingdom|Britain or the Netherlands, who ignored the papal demarcation and staked their own claims.
What is 33 degrees South of equator statting with letter T?
Trundle, New South Wales is located at 32°55′S 147°42.5′ E, in SE Australia.
Treinta y Tres, Uruguay is located at 33°14′S 54°23′ W, in Eastern Uruguay on the Olimar River. Oddly enough, it is not named for its latitude but for the legendary "33 Orientales", heroes who in 1825 began the war that led to independence from Brazil in 1828.
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What is a point on the earth farthest from the equator?
Not exact but one place too look at would be Saktyrskiy - Russia north of Pulankol' And probably the south pole
How are the equator and prime meridian the same?
Each is the starting place for its form of measurement - the equator for latitude and the prime meridian for longitude.
They are both considered to be '0' or the starting mark for counting in either latitude or longitude. They both go around the earth, even though one goes from North to South, while the other goes East to West.
Is value of g is greater at the poles or at equator?
The expression for acceleration due to gravity is
ge=GMe/r2Acceleration due to gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the center of the Earth and the object. The acceleration due to gravity produced in an object on the surface of the Earth is dependent on the radius of the Earth. Earth is not a perfect sphere (slightly bulging out at the equator) its radius decreases as we move from the equator to the poles. At the equator and at sea level its value is about 9.78 m/s2 and at the poles it is 9.83 m/s2. Its mean value is taken as 9.8 m/s2 for all calculations.
Are you closer to the equator in northern Argentina or in southerns Spain?
Assuming that YOU were in either of those locations:
Northern Argentina is closer to the equator. The latitude of the equator is zero. Latitudes increase as you move farther from the equator, both north and south.
The northernmost point in Argentina is near 21.8° south latitude while the southernmost point in Spain is about 36° N near Gibraltar.
There are Spanish islands closer to the equator, the Canary Islands, at 27.6° N, but even so northern Argentina is closer to the equator by about 6° of latitude.
What is the distance from Montreal to the equator?
Downtown Calgary is 5,658.1 kilometers from the equator.
What is the approximate distance of the earths circumference equator?
360 degrees x 60 minutes = 21,600 minutes of arc for full circumference = 21,600 nautical miles (one minute of arc at equator = one nautical mile).
21,600 nautical miles = 24,872.7272...statute miles = 40,028.7 kilometres.
For all practical purposes 40, 000 km. = circumf. at equator.
Does the sub-solar point always hit the equator?
The "sub-solar point" is the point on Earth where the Sun is straight up, at a 90 degree angle to the ground. This point moves around the Earth each day as the Earth rotates, and appears to move north and south over the course of the year.
The sub-solar point is exactly on the equator at the moment of the two equinoxes.
In March, the sub-solar point is moving north as it crosses the equator; in September, the sub-solar point is moving south across the equator. In June, the sub-solar point creeps up to the Tropic of Cancer and then heads south again. In December, the sub-solar point gets all the way south to the Tropic of Capricorn at the winter solstice.
They were named the trade winds at a time when trade, or commerce, was conducted largely by sailing vessels that required wind in order to travel. The trade winds were used by sailing ships engaged in trade.
What is the speed of 100 KG person at the earth's equator?
Are you talking about the speed of rotation of the Earth's surface at the equator ?
Angularly, that would be 1 rotation/day, or roughly 1,038 miles per hour linearly.
The man's mass makes no difference. When a group of people all get together at the
equator, we don't see the heavy ones racing ahead or lagging behind the light ones.
What is the prime meridian of nebraska?
There is only one Prime Meridian on Earth. By international agreement,
it's the meridian that contains the groove on the floor of the transit room
of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich UK. That meridian is the definition
of zero longitude, from which all longitudes are measured.
