GK
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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A map distorts properties like distance.
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A map shows little detail.
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A map indicates actual distances.
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A map is very large.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The advantage of the world map is that you can see the entire world at one time. The disadvantage is that world maps distort shape, size, distance, and direction.
Detailed explanation-2: -Five essential characteristic properties of map projections are subject to distortion: shape, distance, direction, scale, and area. No projection can retain more than one of these properties over a large portion of the Earth.
Detailed explanation-3: -There are four main types of distortion that come from map projections: distance, direction, shape and area. The Mercator projection, for example, distorts Greenland because of its high latitude, in the sense that its shape and size are not the same as those on a globe.
Detailed explanation-4: -"On the globe, parallels are equally spaced, but to get the special property of great circles and straight lines, Mercator’s projection exponentially increases the separation of parallels as one moves poleward. On the map, therefore, there is increasing vertical stretching as one moves poleward."