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What projection shows all lines of latitude and longitude as straight lines?
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The Mercator projection does that.
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Which type of map projection shows all latitude and longitude lines as parell?
The Mercator projection
Why are lines of latitude and lines of longitude perpendicular?
a) planar projection B) cylindrical projection
What map has parallel lines of latitude and longitude?
Most maps will show latitude and longitude lines, if not, they're ALWAYS on a globe.
What is projection has parallel latitude lines and parallel longitude lines?
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Describe patterns of meridians on the Mercator?
They go straight up and down in parallel. (This is as opposed to a Robinson Projection where they bow out and away from the Prime Meridian.)
What is the advantage of Mercator projection?
The ability of the Mercator projection to allow straight and constant course lines. Or longitude and latitude lines.
What is the advantage of a Mercator projection?
The ability of the Mercator projection to allow straight and constant course lines. Or longitude and latitude lines.
What are shown as straight lines on a Mercator projection called?
The parallels of latitude and the meridians of longitude are all straight lines on the Mercator projection. That's why Greenland looks bigger than South America.
Which type of map projection shows all latitude and longitude lines as parell?
The Mercator projection
Why are lines of latitude and lines of longitude perpendicular?
a) planar projection B) cylindrical projection
What map has parallel lines of latitude and longitude?
Most maps will show latitude and longitude lines, if not, they're ALWAYS on a globe.
What is projection has parallel latitude lines and parallel longitude lines?
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Describe patterns of meridians on the Mercator?
They go straight up and down in parallel. (This is as opposed to a Robinson Projection where they bow out and away from the Prime Meridian.)
Are latitude and longitude lines curve or straight?
They curve with the curve of the Earth.
Why does horizontal scale of a mercator projection increase with latitude?
The vertical (or latitude) scale increases with latitude, keeping the hoizontal (longitude) constant. This is in order to make the lines of longitude parallel on the chart, instead of, in reality, converging toward the poles. This allows courses to be plotted and drawn on the chart, as straight lines crossing the lines of longitude at the same angle. Known as 'plane sailing'. ie. it is on a plane (flat surface) not a globe.
How does the latitude lines appear on a polar projection?
A polar projection is a map viewing either the North Pole or the South Pole from above. Each latitude line forms a circle that is centered at the pole. The latitude lines closest to the pole are the smallest, and the ones farther away are the largest.
What type of projection has parallel lines of longitude which disappear near the poles?
Mercator is the type of projection which has parallel lines of longitude which disappear near the poles. The project in question also presents parallel lines of latitude even though the overall clarity gets distorted around both the North and South Poles.
