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What is a flat map called that represents a portion of the round earth?
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∙ 13y ago
That would be an Atlas.
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Is the world is round or flat?
Round. Want proof? Find a picture of Earth from the moon. In 1969 a Earth Rise photo was taken showing the Earth in space.
What do cartographers use to show the round Earth on a flat surface?
They use pencils silly, but the world is flat. If it were round you would of falled off.
THE equator is the only line of latitude that is a great circle why?
The reason is because it is in the middle of the earth so it makes the biggest, most round circle, (around the Earth). it has the farthest to go around thus creating a perfectly round circle of latitude around Earth........................(i'm 13)
What is the imaginary line around which the earth spins?
There are many imaginary lines circling the Earth. The Equator is one of them that circles the Earth round the middle, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn are further north and south and the Arctic and Antarctic circles further north and south again.yea
How many miles sparates each of the earth's parallel line?
depends on which one. since parallels are separated by 15 degrees there is no one answer. it depends on which two parallels since the earth is not perfectly round and at what height
What is a flat map the represents a portion of the round earth?
That would be an Atlas.
Flat maps that represent a portion of the round earth?
projection
Why are the lines of longitude so much closer together at the bottom portion of the map they are at the top?
Because the earth is round and the bottom of the earth is smaller than the middle of earth such as the equator
A round model of Earth that is tilted and turns just as Earth does is called a what?
Globe
Why is the earth called a sphere?
Becouse the globe is round
Why are lines of longitude so much closer together at the bottom portion of the map than they are at the top?
Because the earth is round and the bottom of the earth is smaller than the middle of earth such as the equator
Why are the lines of longitude so much closer together at the bottom portion of the map than they are at the top?
Because the earth is round and the bottom of the earth is smaller than the middle of earth such as the equator
What is a system of mapping the round earth on a flat surface called?
Is called projection .
What takes 364.24 to complete?
If 364.24 represents days, then it is approximately the time taken by the earth to go round the sun once.
What are hot areas of the earth year round called?
Tropical
One complete round of a earth on its orbit is called what?
Reduction
What is a system mapping the round earth on a surface called?
mercator
