can anyone explain the world globe to me?
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Print out the following site and put it together. There are ones for mars at NCAA site. \nBuckminster Fuller had several different ones. One had the continents as one big island, one had one unified ocean.\nNotice when a plane travels from say, LA to Japan, it first travels to Alaska. That is the shortest distance. This would be an arc on a flat map.
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You will find it all here   Even his map. \n\nhttp://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/greavesandthomas/facsimile/globe_magellan.htm
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If you like maps, you will love this website: \n\nhttp://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/MapCenter/map.aspx\n\n\nYou can also try another good one:\n\nhttp://geography.about.com/library/maps/blindex.htm\n\n\nHave fun "traveling" the globe!
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do you mean the hemispheres?\n\ntry http://en.wikipedia.org
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GPS system uses a mathematical model called an ellipsoid to represent the shape of the earth. \n\nThe true shape of the earth is refered to as a geoid, but not easy to measure or represent mathematically. It is the shape the earth takes due to gravitational and rotational forces as opposed to the perfect sphere and is affected locally by denser material in spots.\n\nMean sea level is the old way of measuring things taking measurements over long periods of time to find the theoretical sea level if there were no waves or tidal forces. (you don't want to calculate how far above sea level a building is and have to figure out what time of day it is for the tidal adjustment.) \n\nThese are the three ways you can measure how high up a point on the earth is. Hope that helps.
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Renter's boundary = boarder's border\n\nSpun globe = whirled world\n\n:)
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It's orbit is closer to a circle than any other with an eccentricity of less that 1%. It also has a retrograde motion (it rotates from east to west instead of west to east). It always shows the same face to earth in the same way the moon does.
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It's due to the jetstream which is located at about 250 mb which is approximately 12km above the surface (give or take).\nAnyway the jet stream does circle the globe (not always continuously) flowing from west to east (in the northern hemisphere).  Our weather systems are steered by the upper level winds associated with the jet stream.  Keep in mind though, the jet stream does have troughs and ridges which causes weather systems to move north or south, but the general flow is from west to east.\n\n-For those who say it's the rotation of the Earth... it is in a way because it's the unequal heating of the earth and the rotation of the earth that creates the jet stream.  But it really is upper level winds which steer weather systems.
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Well it makes sense that there would be visitors from other worlds.  The idea that Earth is the only planet in the whole universe that supports inteligent life is very arrogant, really.\n\nIt is a bit like the notion that the earth is round.  For hundreds of years, people were only aware of there immediate environments and could not embrace the idea that the earth is round.\n\nAlso, it was long assummed that the sun and planets rotated around the earth.  A famous scientists proposed that actually the planets, inluding earth, rotated around the sun.  He was punished for this, and it was many years before "Scientists" finally accepted it.\n\nToday, persons who come forward with evidence of extra terrestrial life are usually labelled insane (or locked away or killed by the powers that be).\n\nHow long will it be before "Scientists" accept this reality??
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you cant find a Venn diagram doing that but what you can do it by your self \n\nput the world in the middle and draw 2 circles \n\nNorthern Hemisphere = NH the upper half \nSouthern Hemisphere = SH the lower half \ndon't make any intersection coz they don't share any land they are totally sprat \nand that's all ! wishing you luck and hope i have helped
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The Prime, Meridian, which runs through the eastern half of Greenland and near the west coast of Africa, cuts the Earth into two halves; the eastern and the western. The equator, which runs through northern Brazil in South America, the rainforest part of Africa, the southern tip of India, and passes right above Thailand, also cuts the Earth in half. For a quick guide, here is what each hemisphere consists of:\n\n1. The NW Hemisphere consists of: all of North America and Central America, the western half of Greenland, and some of northern South America (Colombia, Venezuala, and a little of northern Brazil in essence). Also, most of Spain and the UK, all of Portugal and Ireland, and the western fourth of France are in the North-Western Hemisphere.\n2. The SW Hemisphere consists of most of South America (most of Brazil, and all of Bolivia, Paraguay, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay). VERY little of Western Africa is in this hemisphere; only part of the countries Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, and Guinea-Bissau are in the South-Western Hemisphere. Also, the Antarctica Peninsula, along with its scattered islands near the coast, are in this hemisphere.\n3. The NE Hemisphere consists of Central and Eastern Europe, most of Africa, except the southern part that looks like a protruding horn; and almost all of Asia, except for Malaysia and Indonesia.\n4. Of the SE Hemisphere: there is the southern "protruding horn" of Africa, the pointed southern end of the teardrop-shaped India; all of Australia, Indoneisa, Malaysia, and the Phillipines; and most of Antarctica.
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http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/PlateTectonics/Maps/map_plate_tectonics_world.html
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Well, it is fairly simple. One of your best resources is weather.com. Look at a globe and you can learn a lot as well.
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You are upside down... according to someone in Australia.\n\nThe Earth is a sphere and is constantly attracting you via gravity.  So no matter where you go it will always be pulling you towards the center.  As you travel around the globe "down" will always be toward the center of the Earth.
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Isaiah 40:22 \nEarth is a circle\nBTW, a circle is FLAT - not a ball or round therefore not a sphere\n\nIsaiah 11:12  and Revelation 7:1 \nThe Earth has four corners\nFYI: Spheres don't have corners\n\nJob 38:13 and Jeremiah 16:19 and Daniel 4:11\nThe ends of the Earth\nFYI: A sphere doesn't end\n\nMatthew 4:8 \nAstronomical bodies are spherical SO it is not possible to see the whole exterior\n\nFor the guy that said the earth is a sphere based on Isiah 40:22, then it contradicts the rest of the biblical passages I've posted.  And, either way there is a falsity somewhere about the Earth's shape.\n\nBut, I guess you still believe the earth is flat.  Or, that a sphere can have edges.
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It is in the northern hemisphere. In the northern half of the planet.
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doesnt it go all the way round ?\n\nThe equator is an imaginary circle drawn around a planet (or other astronomical object) at a distance halfway between the poles. The equator divides the planet into a Northern Hemisphere and a Southern Hemisphere. The latitude of the equator is, by definition, 0°. The length of Earth's equator is about 40,075.0 km, or 24,901.5 miles.\n\n \nThe equator is one of the five main circles of latitude based on the relationship of the Earth's rotation and plane of orbit around the sun. Additionally, the equator is the only line of latitude which is also a great circle.\n\nThe Sun, in its seasonal movement through the sky, passes directly over the equator twice each year on the Vernal and Autumnal Equinoxes, which occur in March and September respectively. At the equator, the rays of the sun are perpendicular to the surface of the earth on these dates.\n\nPlaces near the equator experience the quickest rates of sunrise and sunset in the world, taking minutes. Such places also have a relatively constant amount of day/night time on every day throughout the year compared with more northerly or southerly places.