Navigation on Earth

Kia ora everyone,

I'm going to share about what we are currently learning during Science. We are finally done learning about "Navigation on Mars", and now we are moving on to "Navigation on Earth". This involves research, I have been researching about this. There are questions that we must answer. 

Here it is:

What is a magnet?

A magnet is made of an iron metal, it’s a metal that gets attached to a magnet if you connect both of them together. An atom can spin to the right and left, clockwise and anticlockwise. It’s called Atoms of iron, it spins different directions. But if it spins DIFFERENT directions, nothing happens but if it spins the SAME directions it creates a magnet.

Atoms: spins to right and left - clockwise and anticlockwise

It’s called “Atoms of iron” - spins different directions - if spin the same directions it creates a magnet

but if

it spins different directions, nothing happens. 

Magnetic field: 

How does a compass find North? 

Around the world there's something called ball of iron and a core, around the core there's lava - liquid hot

metal

Outside of the world is called a crust, the flesh of the world is called a mantle. 

If the liquid spins it’s gonna create a magnetic field, that’s why there's a north and a south in the end

because it spins inside the world. A compass is a magnet and it’s going to line up with the magnetic field

and point to north and south. 

Info: 

Top of the compass north 

The bottom south

Left is the east and right is west

between  the north and east - northeast

Between east and south - southeast

Between south and west - southwest

Between west and north northwest

North - 0 degrees

East - 90 degrees

South - 180 degrees

West - 270 degrees

How can you make a compass?

There are steps to follow: (These steps I found are from google)

1. Magnetize the needle. Hold the needle, and take your magnet and stroke it down the length of your

2. needle 50 times.

3. Magnetize the other end with the reverse.

4. Prepare the cork.

5. Insert the needle.

6. FIll a bowl with water.

7. Test the compass. 

Bonus question: How can you find North using a watch? How do you find South (in the Southern Hemisphere) using the stars?

To utilize your watch as an inexact compass outside of the jungles in the northern half of the globe, hold the watch even and point the hour hand at the sun. Somewhere between that point and the twelve o’clock blemish on your watch focuses towards the south. 

The sky’s South pole has no such splendid star. In any case, in case you’re in the Southern Hemisphere,

you can reality utilize the Southern cross. Otherwise called the star grouping Crux, to discover divine

south. At that point, you can draw a line descending from divine south to discover the course due south. 

Thank you for reading my blog. That's all, bye.