Question

The Mercator projection, a popular map in classrooms in the United States, is a(n) ________ map.



conformal



equal-area



spherical



triangular

Answer 1

What do you think?

Answer 2

Spherical

Answer 3

i believe it is equal area, but im not sure

Answer 4

shaped like a sphere. Is Spherical.. so I don't think that is it..

Answer 5

The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569.

Answer 6

but its not spherical. thats the globe

Answer 7

In cartography, the Lambert cylindrical equal-area projection, or Lambert cylindrical projection, is a cylindrical equal-area projection.

Answer 8

it can be both flat and cylinder

Answer 9

Idk what the one im trying to think of is called its like a globe that got cut on one side and then laied out

Answer 10

SO that makes it equal-area...

Answer 11

Oh so that's what that's called c:

Answer 12

Yup c;