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What does a political map show?

What is a map projection?

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What is a map projection?
It's a map of the world
The representation of the earth on a plane surface
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What does a political map show?
It show mountians and rivers
The goverment borders for countries
States, capitals, big/important cities
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What is longitude?
The measurment east and west of the prime meridian
The measurment noth and south of the equator
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What is the difference between a globe and a map?
A globe is a three-dimensional sphere while a map is two-dimensional
A globe is bigger than a map
A globe is the same thing as a map
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What is the Equator?
The measurment east and west of the prime meredian
line 0 longitude. the starting point for measuring east, west around earth
The measurment north and south of the equator
And imagenary line around the middle of the earth
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What is the Prime Meredian?
The measurment north and south of the equator
line 0 longitude. the starting point for measuring east, west around earth
The measurment east and west of the prime meredian
And imagenary line around the middle of the earth
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How does the Mercator map affect the size of countries?
It makes them off center and not in the right places
It dosen't
distorts the sizes of countries near the poles. It makes them appear bigger
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What is latitude?
The measurment of distance north and south of the equator
The measurment of distance east and west of the equator
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What does the scale bar on a map show?
The population
How tall mountians are
Different deserts and bodys of water
A representation of distance and size of the map
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What problems do map projections create?
They make the countries shift so they're not in the right places
It makes the countries bigger/smaller
They don't create any problems.