Map Proyections Flashcards
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Distort
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Change, shapes, areas, distances, and directions found in the real world.
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Main idea of map projections
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Cartographers use various projections to show Earth’s curvead surface on a flat map.
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Projections
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Ways to showing Earth’s curved surface on a flat map.
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Azimuthal projection
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Projects port of the globe onto a flat surface.
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Mercator projection
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Show much of Earth, but it distorts the shape.
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Homolosines projection
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Resembles the flattened peel of an orange.
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Robinson projection
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Combines the strengths of others proyections.
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Winkel tripel projection
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Is a moldified vertion of the Robinson projection. It has less distortion of area and shape.
