What is a equator?

Question

What is a equator?

Answer 1

an imaginary circle on the surface of the earth,equidistant from the poles and dividing the earth into the norhtern and southern hemisphere.The equator is the line from which latitudes are measured,the latitude of any single point on the equator being 0 degree.

Answer 2

an imaginary line that cuts through the middle of the earth. it is hottest and most countries around it are tropical. The equator is also abit buldged out to form a flattened circle(elipse) shape of the earth. so in theory, u weigh a wee bit lesser on the equator than in say, USA or canada.

Answer 3

The equater is a line which goes to the center of the earth.This area is very hot climate it is called equater.

Answer 4

EQUATOR COMES FROM THE WORD EQUAL OR EQUATE MEANING TO DIVIDE EQUALLY AND THAT'S WHAT AN EQUATOR DOES. OUR EARTHLY EQUATOR DIVIDES THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN HEMISPHERES EQUALLY.

Answer 5

The equator is the central line that goes right around the globe to seperate the northern and southern hemispheres.

Places on the equator tend to be the warmest around

Answer 6

It is an imaginary horizontal line in the middle of the earth.

Answer 7

It's the immaginary line that seperates the norther and southern hemsiperes. By the way there is only one equator and it runs arcoss the center of the earth. By the way, temperatures tend to be more extreme when close to the equator

Answer 8

Imagine the globe. Now imagine the globe folded horizontally. Then you see a fold or crease in the middle. That is the equator.

Answer 9

The Horizontal line that separates the northern and southern hemisphere.

Answer 10

its the distance around the world{horizon} until it meets up again.

Answer 11

The equator is an imaginary line on the Earth's surface equidistant from the North Pole and South Pole that divides the Earth into a Northern Hemisphere and a Southern Hemisphere. The equators of other planets and astronomical bodies are defined analogously.

Is called equator because the imaginary line is crosses Ecuador (the latin south american country)....

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Answer 12

The earth's equator is that great circle whose plane is perpendicular to the earth's axis of rotation.