The equal-area projection shows correctly the size of landmasses.
Use the textbook excerpt below to help you answer question 4 below.
Flat maps and photos have one major problem. The Earth is round and a map or photo is flat. Can you flatten an orange peel without stretching or tearing it? There will be sections that are stretched or bent out of shape. Whenever Earth is shown on a flat surface it won't all be shown correctly. There will be some things that aren't perfect.
The equal-area projection shows the correct size of the landmasses, but their shapes are distorted (wrong).
4. What does the equal-area projection show correctly?
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size of landmasses
shapes of landmasses
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