Look up for example The rain forest and the desert then tell how they are different
The answer for sure is A arctic circle
Covers one half of the earth is not a characteristic because deserts simply do not cover half the earth
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.