What is the difference between the magnetic north pole and the north pole?
The Earth’s magnetic field looks approximately like that of a bar magnet with the poles being near the Earth’s geographical poles. Scientists do not know much about how the Earth’s magnetic field is produced other then its probably caused by massive circulation of ionized (charged) matter inside the Earth. The fact that the two North poles are near each other helps support this theory because one would expect the ionized matter to circulate in a direction similar to the earth’s rotation, which would produce the kind of magnetic field we have.
