The imaginary line that divides the earth into in this case the north and south hemispheres is called the Equator and it passes through Ecuador and actually Ecuador is the Spanish word for Equator. The French explorer La Condamine spent 10 years in Ecuador studying the equator and determined the oblate spheroid shape of the world.
These are the zones of interaction between adjacent plates where they collide, pull apart or slide past each other. such as the mid-Atlantic ridge and <span>Oldoinyo Lengai, East African Rift Zone</span>
