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r-ruslan [8.4K]
3 years ago
14

On a Mercator projection map, Greenland looks larger than South America. However, it is actually much smaller. How could this af

fect a person's understanding of land areas?
Geography
2 answers:
Vera_Pavlovna [14]3 years ago
8 0

Answer:

The map is thereby conformal. As a side effect, the Mercator projection inflates the size of objects away from the equator.

Nookie1986 [14]3 years ago
7 0
When you look at a globe it obscures the size of countries, love for example Australia may seem small on a globe but it’s really almost the size of the USA. Also the normal map you see is one drew in the 1500’s, but they are actually a lot more stretched.


This cloud affect someone’s understanding of land area by them seeing for example, Greenland as the size of Africa.
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