what are some differences between the north and south pole?
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The North pole is over sea, South is over land.\n\n\nPolar bears in the North, Penguins in the South.
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A magnetic field has a north and south polarity. Gravitation is mostly the same every where on Earth.
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Up and down are defined by where you feel gravity pulling. Usually all you see will be pulled into the same direction as yourself, so everything will appear right side up.\n\nHowever, unless you live on the north pole, your "up" won't be identical to "north". The angle by which your "up" direction is different from north is called latitude. My guess is that you live at roughly 45° latitude, that half sideways. Still feels like upright, doesn't it?
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Penguins live in the South Pole and Eskimos in the North Pole
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The North Pole is colder in January, probably, although good records do not exist. In January the North Pole average temperature is probably about -40 (C or F). It is warmed somewhat since it lies over sea ice, and the water below the ice is a source of heat. \n\nThe South Pole in January has an average temperature of about -25.9 C, during the Southern Hemisphere summer (from records at the Amundsen-Scott Ice Station at the South Pole). The reason that the South Pole is so much colder than the North pole is that it is farther removed from the warming effects of the ocean, and it also on a high plateau as well.
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depends.....at the equator, from the surface to sea level, it is 6,378.135 km. from the centre to the north or south pole, at sea level, it is 6,356.750 km. remember, both of those are to sea level, and they differ because the world is not a perfect sphere.
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I guess it's time someone writes down a correct answer...\n\nThe earth rotate on its axis, which runs through the north and south poles.  It so happens that the earth's axis is not perfectly vertical.  Because the axis is at an angle, we spend half the year (it changes during the equinox) with the north pole (and hence the northern hemisphere) tilted towards the sun - this is summer.  We spend the other half of the year with the south pole tilted towards the sun (hence, the northern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun) - this is the winter.  Now I will leave it up to you to think about why this should make the summer days longer than the winter days.  Try this:  grab a basketball (better yet, a globe), turn off all the lights, point a flashlight at it and spin it with the axis rotated towards the light and with the axis rotated away from the light.  Follow a single point on the top half of the ball and see if you can make sense why this point stays in the light longer when the axis is pointed towards the light versus when the axis is pointed away from the light... \n\nIt's a nice point to make that in the southern hemisphere (Australia, Chile, South Africa, etc.) the days are longer in the winter and shorter in the summer.  If you think for a moment, it shouldn't be too hard to figure out why...
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When you are exactly at  the north or south pole, the compass needle just dangles. It experiences equal force to point in any direction.
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Its not so much one pole attracting the needlepoint so much as the entire magnetic metal beneath the needle aligning to the magnetic field lines*. North and South are just directional names; the most powerful magnet at the time magnetism was discovered was the earth, so naturally, they used the locations of the Earth's poles to name every magnet's pole.\n\n*Magnetic field lines are lines of force connecting the North and South poles of every magnetic object. Place a magnet under a piece of paper and sprinkle iron filings on top, and you'll be able to 'see' them. \n\nThe magnetosphere is the name given to the Earth's magnetic field, which extends into space and gives us protection against much of the charged particle radiation from the sun. This 'solar wind' interacting with our magnetosphere is what causes the auroras over the poles.
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one face is south and the other face is the north pole
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Between the extremes of  12,400 to 12,500, depending on which north south line you traveled (the contour of the earth would create different distances).  The actual circumference of the earth through the poles has been calculated at 24,859.92 miles (less than the equatorial circumference.)
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Iceland is at Latitude 65 degrees North while New Zealand is at Latitude 41 degrees south - assuming that the earth is an almost perfect sphere that would make Iceland closer to the North pole than New Zealand is to the South Pole ( Note: North Pole would be 90 Degrees North, giving an angular distance of 25 from Iceland , South Pole is 90 Degrees south giving an angular distance from New Zealand 49 Degrees )
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Do you have a small scale?  Put a magnet on the scale with the north pole up.  Mount another magnet above that magnet with the north pole down.  Move the top magnet to different heights and records the height and the "weight" on the scale.  Mount the second  magnet with the south pole down and repeat.  Draw a graph comparing height and weight with the north pole  up and the north pole down.  What shapes are the graphs?
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Apart from the North Pole, there is a countable infinity of circumferences parallel to the equator, in which each point has this property. They are:\n- The circumference which distance from the South pole (> 1 mile) is such that when you go 1 mile south and then east, you run on a smaller closed circle exactly 1 time (it is long 1 mile), so that you hit the same point and go up via the same meridian.\n- The circumference in which the construction above leads to a smaller circle exactly 1/2 miles long.\n- ... and so on, with 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, etc.
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The axis of the Earth and Sun are not paralel. In some point, as the Earth moves around the Sun, the north pole is far away from the sun, and so, it gets less heat from it. This is winter. The oposite occur to the south pole (summer). The intermediate situation is called autumn and spring.
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I think you are referring to the fact that there is a geographical north pole and a magnetic north pole.  \n\nThe North Pole can be defined in four different ways. Only the first two definitions are commonly used.\n\nHowever it is defined, the North Pole lies in the Arctic Ocean. It is not on land as the south pole is, so there is no land, just permanently frozen waters.\n\nThe Geographic North Pole, also known as True North, is approximately the northern point at which the Earth's axis of rotation meets the surface. \n\nThe Magnetic North Pole is the northern point at which the geomagnetic field points vertically, i.e. the dip is 90°. \n\nThe Geomagnetic North Pole is the pole of the Earth's geomagnetic field's dipole moment (somewhat confusingly, it is technically the south pole of the dipole). (I really don't know what that means!!!)\n\nThe Northern Pole of Inaccessibility is defined as the point in the Arctic farthest from any coastline, and is at 84°03′N 174°51′W. Similar poles exist in the Pacific and Indian oceans, and there is a dry land pole of inaccessibility in the Antarctic. \n\nThe website I've attached gives lots more information.
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Depends where you drill. The distance from the poles is slightly different than the distance from the equators since the earth is slightly bulged at the equator.\n\nIf you were to drill straight through from the north pole to the south pole, you would travel about 7901 miles while drilling at the equator would add about 26 miles.