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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.
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What are three countries in South America have the equator passing through them?
The answer is Ecuador, Columbia, and Brazil.
How many inches around is the equator?
The diameter of the Earth through the Poles is only slightly less than the diameter across the Equator
Polar diameter = 12713.6 km
Equatorial diameter = 12,756.2 km
Which is a difference of just 42.6 km - or less than 0.34%
Why is it harder to notice seasonal changes near the equator?
Because they get midsummer twice a year and midwinter twice a year. The sun is never very far from being overhead at noon even in winter.
What are the two landlocked countries south of the equator?
There are only two in South America: Bolivia and Paraguay.
But there are seven more in southern Africa: Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Lesotho. Or eight counting Uganda, which straddles the equator.
Does the equator pass through India?
No, it does not. The equator passes through the Indian Ocean south of Sri Lanka.
What is the name of the imaginary line?
The Line of Demarcation split South America into sections for the countries which claimed it. The Line of Demarcation was drawn by Pope Alexander in 1493.
Are the temperatures at all points along the earth's equator the same?
No they are not all the same temperature but it is warm.
What African countries does the equator run through?
Kenya, Gabon, Congo, Zaire, Uganda and Somalia
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Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya & Somalia
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Why is it warmer near the equator than near the poles-?
The angle at which the suns rays hit the earth is more nearly perpendicular, therefore more energy is delivered per unit area. Secondly the rays pass through much less atmosphere so less energy is absorbed by the atmosphere.
Do places on the equator get seasons?
You do not get all four seasons when you live near the equator because it is almost the same temperature all year round so there is no need to have a season when you are having the same weather all year.
What countries lie on the equator?
There are six African countries that lie on the equatorial line. They are Gabon, Congo, DR Congo, Uganda, Kenya, and Somalia.
Does Amazon River cross the Equator?
The Amazon River flows mostly northwards throughout its journey and enters the Atlantic Ocean on the Equator, thus the only point the Amazon is on the Equator is at its mouth
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There are how many degrees between the lines of latitude?
There is no official set of "lines". Some globes and maps have more lines, spaced closer
together. Some globes and maps have fewer lines, spaced farther apart. Some globes
and maps have no lines at all. We have no way of knowing how many latitudes are
marked on the globe or map that you're looking at today, and the next one you see
may be marked at a different interval.
Where do the Equator and the Prime Meridian intersect?
The Prime Meridian of the world lies at 0˚ longitude.
Because it is near the sun.
Second answer
The earth is an oblate spheroid, meaning that it is wider side to side than it is tall top to bottom--i.e., it is not a perfect sphere. This means that the equator sticks out the furthest and is exposed to greater amounts of sun.
Third answer
As we all know that equator is the imaginary line which divides earth into two hemisphere, northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere. The sun rays fall directly on the equator as a reason it stays hot the whole year.
How are the prime maridian and equator different?
The difference between any meridian and the equator:-
The Equator is an imaginary line of latitude (it goes round the middle of the Earth in the plane in which the Earth spins) it is also a "Great Circle" in that the plane of the equator passes through the middle of the Earth.
Meridians are imaginary lines of longitude (they pass through the North and South Poles of Earth and are therefore at 90 degrees to the plane in which the Earth spins). Meridians/lines of longitude are also "Great Circles".
The difference between the prime meridian and the equator:-
The Equator is 0 degrees latitude while the Prime Meridian is 0 degrees longitude.
yes a tundra can be near the equator but not all tundras are
What is the difference between rotation and rotation axis and equator?
rotation is the spiinning of the planet on its axis and revoulution is the orbiting of the planet around the sun
