GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Earth is an oblate spheroid. This means it is spherical in shape, but not perfectly round. It is slightly bulged at the equator and is flattened at the poles.

Detailed explanation-2: -The earth’s shape is a spheroid. Although the earth’s shape is technically an ellipsoid, its major and minor axes do not vary greatly. In fact, its shape is so close to a sphere that it is often called a spheroid rather than an ellipsoid. A spheroid is simply an ellipsoid that approximates a sphere.

Detailed explanation-3: -A geoid is also called an oblate spheroid.