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Does an equal-area map or a mercator map show the true size of Australia?
A equal-area map shows the "true" size of Australia.
What is a map inside a map called?
A map?
What is the flat map shape like an oval called?
A map in the shape of an oval is called the Mollweide Map.
What is a map that shows farmland called?
A farm map?
What is a map of the ocean called?
A map of the ocean is called a topographic map. On a map the oceans surface has highs and lows look similar to the hills and valleys of the Earth's surface.
What part of a map tells you the difference in size between the map and real life?
The scale
Can a person make a life-size map of the World?
On Jupiter.
The relationship between the size of an area on a map and its actual size on the earth's surface is called the?
scale
What is the section of map that is blown up to increase the size?
This is called an inset.
A world map drawn so that the size of each country is the reflection of its population rather than its size is called?
cartograph or cartogram
What feature is distorted on an equal area map?
Landmasses , map projections that show the correct size of landmasses are called equal-area maps. In order to show the correct size of the landmasses, the map usually distort shapes . This distortion is usually greater at the edges of the map and less at the center
What is the difference between size on map and real size?
This is called scale. Every map is drawn to a certain scale (which is the relationship between the distance on the map and the corresponding distance in reality). The map scale is indicated normally as a ratio. For example 1:1,000,000. This means that 1cm on the map (for example) relates to 1,000,000cm (10km) in reality.
When A map which uses a special transformation so that the areas of states reflect population size it is called what?
Cartogram
Does an equal-area map or a mercator map show the true size of Australia?
A equal-area map shows the "true" size of Australia.
What tells you the relative size of a map or corn?
map scales
What map preserves shape and what map preserves size?
my dick
Which inset map shows Alaskans size more accurately?
North America inset map
