Keeping these two simple items in your pack—and knowing ... One of the tricky parts of navigating with a compass is that magnetic north isn’t the same as true north. The angle between the ...

A magnet is what makes a compass ... and the north pole of one magnet is attracted to the south pole of another magnet. (You may have seen this demonstrated by a pair of simple bar magnets or ...

and it lines up with True North (different than magnetic North on your compass). Take some rocks and make an arrow that lines up with the North Star and you will have the marker during the ...

Wait a minute, and you will find the magnet's North Pole is pointing north! You've constructed a simple compass. The entire earth is surrounded by its own magnetic field. If a bar magnet is ...