SSC MTS EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -The simple explanation is that it’s physically impossible to take the surface of a sphere and accurately represent it on a flat plane without distorting it in some way. Scientist Carl Frederick Gauss provided this in 1828. Because of this, every flat projection of the earth is in some way flawed.

Detailed explanation-2: -Though all areas are the correct size relative to each other, most land masses are distorted in order to make it so. Land masses appear stretched-horizontally at the poles and vertically at the Equator-meaning that, though countries are roughly the correct size, they are by no means the right shape.

Detailed explanation-3: -[map projections] On a map or image, the misrepresentation of shape, area, distance, or direction of or between geographic features when compared to their true measurements on the curved surface of the earth.