they are all distorted. distorted- misrepresented, garbled. ---- ur welcome! ; )
When maps lie flat, they lie because they aren't accurate representations of earth. It means all maps have some distortion- when put flat, it distorts the shape of the land because the earth is actually a sphere.
They are hard to carry
Flat maps can show roads, streets, and towns.
All flat maps do, globes do not.
grid coordinates
Because the Earth isn't flat
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Since the world is round, flat maps (rectangular maps) distort the sizes of continents by making them larger than they actually are.
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Flat maps were drawn that way, because no one knew that the earth was round, until after Christopher Colombus.
flat ones
historians did