A volcano erupting can destroy the forest around it. That is an example of the geosphere acting on the biosphere.
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.
My guess would definitely be false, public transportation seems like a much more reliable mean.
There are five basic kinds of mountains:
Fold Mountains (Folded Mountains)
Fault-block Mountains (Block Mountains)
Dome Mountains.
Volcanic Mountains.
Plateau Mountains.