forget about magnetic poles
2007-10-09 05:39:18 · 11 answers · asked by gdes_00 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
Imagine the earth has a pole running right thru the middle of it and it comes out on both sides. Then hold the poles that impale the earth and spin them around. That's the way the earth rotates. The places where the pole sticks out on both sides are the north and south poles. Hence, there can be no east and west poles.
2007-10-09 05:50:33 · answer #1 · answered by Teresa 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
North and South poles can be determined not by the magnetism (for the magnetic poles reverse and aren't at the true pole), but by the Sun. As the Earth rotates in the direction that it does, its hard to have a pole that is East-West.
2007-10-09 05:47:54 · answer #2 · answered by jared_e42 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you head north, when you reach the pole, you are no longer heading north. Any direction you go will be south.
Same thing for the south pole.
You can only go north or south for so long, then you are heading the opposite direction.
However you can head east and circle the world 100 times, but you are always heading east.
2007-10-09 07:19:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
theoretically uranus has east and west poles, in case you communicate approximately this is sideways spin... North and South poles are the places that get carry of the backside quantity of light and warmth simply by planets place to the sunlight. when you consider that they are on the real and backside, there is far less direct mild hitting them. As such, they seem to be a lot chillier then something of the planet and type frozen varieties of the main abundent liquid on our planet.. water. north and south are perspective positions. actually east and west are used to describe the projectory of the sunlight because it crosses the sky, and north and south describe the extremities of that direction... So theoretically no planet could have north and south poles. even nonetheless in case you communicate approximately it based on the actual revolutions of the planet, Uranus is the proper candidate for that simply by its quite tilted revolution.
2016-11-07 19:19:29 · answer #4 · answered by ricca 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the earth spins on an axis (which is north and south). The earth doesn't spin east or west.
2007-10-09 08:36:15 · answer #5 · answered by Tina R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we define the poles as the points of the axis of rotation of the earth.
2007-10-09 05:43:43 · answer #6 · answered by hcbiochem 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
they are not actuall poles!!! Just the point at which the earth turns. Kind alike when you spin a basket ball on your finger. You finger would be one of the Poles the top would be the other. when you are doing that you can't spin it the oppsite up and down at the same time can you?
2007-10-09 05:48:17 · answer #7 · answered by Tino 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because Earth is round and electromagnetic force so there are only North Pole and South Pole.
2007-10-09 05:50:40 · answer #8 · answered by jay p 1 · 0⤊ 4⤋
because the axis of rotation is north/south
2007-10-09 07:58:41 · answer #9 · answered by rosie recipe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the planet spins on an axis?
2007-10-09 05:46:34 · answer #10 · answered by LillyB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋