Earth's magnetic north pole and its geographical north pole are which of the following?



in the same location


close to each other but in different locations


very far apart


both located with compasses




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AL2006
They're definitely not in the same location, and the geographic pole
can't be located with a compass, so that knocks out the first and last
choices.

To decide between the 2nd and 3rd choices, it depends on what you
call "close" and what you call "far", so these two choices aren't worded
too well.

The Earth's north magnetic pole is about 248 miles away from the true
north (geographic) pole.  (And by the way, it moves !)

Now, 248 miles is not "very far" compared to the size of the Earth. 
But I would not want to walk it or swim it, so I wouldn't call it "close"
either.  The 2nd and 3rd choices are equally wrong, but either one is
a reasonable compromise.
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