Question

State whether the following statement is True or False:
The magnetic south pole of the earth is near the geographic south pole.

Answer 1

To check whether the given statement is true or false, we take help of Magnetic compass, it is a device which is used for navigation purposes to give directions, it has a needle, which always points towards the north.

Complete step by step answer:
We know that, a magnet has two poles, the North Pole and the South Pole, and the opposite poles of two magnets attract each other.Similarly, it is believed that our planet Earth has two magnetic poles, the North Magnetic Pole and the South Magnetic Pole, and it has two geographic poles, the North Pole and the South Pole. So, if a magnetic compass is placed it always points towards a magnetic pole, so, Earth's North Magnetic Pole is actually the geographic south pole of the Earth and Earth's South magnetic Pole is actually the geographic north pole of the Earth. So, the magnetic south pole of the earth is in the direction of the geographic north pole and the magnetic north pole of the earth is in the direction of the geographic south pole.
So, the given statement is false.

Note: Earth is believed to have some magnetic properties, because the crust of earth has permanent magnetisation and the core of earth creates its own magnetic field, due to these reasons it is believed that Earth is a magnet and has magnetic north and south poles.