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What is distance north or south of the earth's equator?
Distance north or south of the Earth's equator is measured in degrees of latitude. The equator is 0 degrees latitude, with the North Pole at 90 degrees north latitude and the South Pole at 90 degrees south latitude. Lines of latitude run parallel to the equator.
How many anacondas does it take to fill around the Equator?
It's estimated that it would take about 40 million anacondas to wrap around the Earth's equator. This calculation is based on the average length of an anaconda (15 feet) and the circumference of the Earth at the equator (24,901 miles).
What would you use to measure the distance around the equator?
On the surface of the Earth, miles used to be the traditional measure, but now displaced by the SI system with kilometres. An exception is in aviation, where horizontal distances are still measured in miles, and altitude measured in thousands of feet. This is to avoid confusing numbers between these two dimensions. There will still be many ships which measure speed in knots, and distance in nautical miles.
Angle that describes the distance north or south of the equator?
Imagine you are at the center of the earth, the south pole beneath your feet and the north pole above your head.You see that north pole and south pole are in opposite direction hence the angle (or angular distance) is 180°now think about the equator. from your point of view at the center of the earth it is exactly in the horizontal direction, since north pole is vertically above ,the angular distance will be 90° (it will be the same for the south pole)
How wide is the earth?
The diameter of the earth at the equator is 41851443 feet, or 12,756.32 kilometers or 7,926.41 miles. The diameter of the earth through the poles is 41717290 feet, or 12,715.43 kilometers, or 7,901.002 miles. Thus the earth is 134153 feet, or 41 km, or 25 miles wider than it is tall, giving it a slight bulge at the equator. This shape is known as an ellipsoid or more properly, geoid (earth-like ball).
