1. What happened to the needle when you placed it on a basin of water?
2. What do you think caused the needle to move?
3. In which direction do you think the needle pointed?
4. Why do you think the needle pointed in that direction?
6. Did you have a real compass with you? In which direction did the
compass needle point?
2. What do you think caused the needle to move?
3. In which direction do you think the needle pointed?
4. Why do you think the needle pointed in that direction?
6. Did you have a real compass with you? In which direction did the
compass needle point?
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1. A metal needle or paper clip has higher density that that of water. So when it is dropped into water.
2. Since the compass needle is also a magnet, the magnetic field around the wire attracted amd repelled the ends of the compass magnet amd caused it to move.
3. North
4. A compass needle points north because the north pole of the magnetic inside it is attracted to the South pole Earth's built-in magnet