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Question

please say if it is true of false and why:

1. a person who weighs 150 pounds at the equator would weigh about 1 pound heavier if he/she stood at the north pole.

2. lemmings commit suicide by jumping off cliffs.

3. spontaneous human combustion is real: people can suddeny burst into flame.

Answer 1

1. True
Acceleration due to gravity is slightly stronger at the poles because the Earth is not perfectly round.
A person who weighs 150lb at the equator would weigh approx. 1lb more at the North Pole.

2. True (to a point).
They go back to the place where they were born to breed, because of large numbers and the terrain involved, some tend to be pushed off cliffs by their compatriots or end up drowing in lakes and rivers.
The suicide bit is supposedly a myth.

3. This has not been proven by any means, so I would say False to SHC.

Answer 2

The earth is not perfectly round. It is wider at the equator. So you are closer to the center where gravity is generated at the poles. True you would weigh more.

True for the lemmings, this has been documented.

Spontaneous human combustion has not been documented.

Answer 3

1. True since the poles are a little closer than the equator from the center of the earth.

2. I don't know.

3. Probably true. I read about such cases.