The stretching, bending, and enlarging of areas on a map due to the curvature of the earth.
distortion
A small area map.
There is always some distortion.
some landmasses
Because a map is flat and a globe is round
The distortion was that the Earth was round
distortion
when a earth's map in a circle the location will be one place.If you put the earth's map in a paper the location will be another place.thats the distortion of earth.
A small area map.
Distortion
distortion
Map distortion is due to the fact that the earth's surface is curved but maps are flat. The more curved the surface that a map represents, the more distortion. For the same size map, one with a smaller scale encompasses a larger surface area of the earth when compared to one with a larger scale. Therefore, the one with a smaller scale will have more distortion.
A projection is a way of keeping the distortion of a flat map
The four types of distortion are shape, distance, relative size, and direction.
There is always some distortion.
On a flattened map of the Earth's surface, like a Mercator projection, the distortion is everywhere except the equator, and grows as it gets closer to the Poles.
the further north you look on a Mercator-projection map, the greater its distortion.