Chapter 10.3

Question 1

Can you use the same compass rose from a map of one city on another city map and get the exact same result?

Answer 1

No, because the angle of declination will be different, especially if one is more northern than the other.

Question 2

What is the line connecting all points where a compass needle points true north?

Answer 2

Agonic line

Question 3

How will the lines of flux be oriented if at either of the magnetic poles, the inclination is at +/- 90 degrees?

Answer 3

They will be vertical.

Question 4

What is the imaginary line that circles the Earth halfway between the two magnetic poles?

Answer 4

Magnetic equator

Question 5

What is the extent of a planet’s magnetic field in space?

Answer 5

Magnetosphere

Question 6

What are the two, vast doughnut-shaped belts of high-speed charged particles that are centered over the magnetic equator?

Answer 6

Van Allen radiation belts