Statement I: The Earth is shaped more like a tangerine. Statement I : The Earth spins faster at the Poles.

Statement I is true as the Earth is an oblate spheroid, characterized by a bulge at the equator and flattening at the poles, a shape often compared to a tangerine or a rugby ball [c1][t5]. This shape results from the centrifugal force generated by the Earth's rotation [t1][t8]. Statement II is false because the Earth's rotational speed is not uniform across all latitudes. The linear velocity of rotation is highest at the equator (approximately 1,600 km/h) and decreases toward the poles, where it is nearly zero [t6][t7]. This is because a point at the equator must travel a much larger circumference than a point near the poles within the same 24-hour period [t6]. Therefore, the Earth spins faster at the equator, not the poles, making Statement II incorrect while Statement I remains a valid physical description.

Sources

1. [1] Physical Geography by PMF IAS, Manjunath Thamminidi, PMF IAS (1st ed.) > Chapter 18: Latitudes and Longitudes > The Shape of The Earth and Latitudinal Heat Zones > p. 241
2. [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_bulge
3. [3] https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/coriolis-effect/