Physics

An iron rod buried inside the earth along …………… direction becomes a magnet.

  1. east-west
  2. equatorial
  3. north-south
  4. any direction

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north-south

Reason — The Earth itself acts as a giant magnet. When the iron rod is aligned in the same direction as the Earth's magnetic field lines (i.e., north-south direction), it gets magnetised due to magnetic induction.

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