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What is the 3 dimensional representation of Earth?
Globe: A three dimensional representation of the earth. Hemisphere: Half of a sphere. The earth can be divided into northern and southern hemispheres or eastern and western.
What do you call to a three dimensional representation of the spherical shape of Earth?
A globe is a spherical model of Earth, of some other celestial body, or of the celestial sphere. Globes serve purposes similar to maps, but unlike maps, they do not distort the surface that they portray except to scale it down. A model globe of Earth is called a terrestrial globe.
Which representation of Earth would not have any distortions apex?
Globe. Earth is best represented by a globe like the one seen in Figure below because Earth is a sphere. Sizes and shapes of features are not distorted and distances are true to scale. A globe is the most accurate way to represent Earth’s curved surface.
What are different ways of representing Earth?
The earth can be represented by topo sheets and topo maps. In addition to that, the earth can also be measured by maps that talk about the different waterbodies and the areas that are covered by the land.
What are flat representations of the Earth called?
a map is a flat representation of earth’s curved surface. however transferring a curved surface to a flat map results in a distorted image of the curved surface. the three-dimensional curved surface of a globe is called a map projection.
How do maps represent Earth’s surface?
A projection is a way to represent the Earth’s curved surface on flat paper. One example of a projection is shown in the Figure below. A map projection translates Earth’s curved surface onto two dimensions. The map maker looks at the sphere from a certain point and then translates this view onto a flat paper.
What is representing the earth?
Earth is commonly seen as feminine, the great mother; nourishment, fertility, infinite creativity, and/or longevity. As the third planet from the SUN the Earth has the symbol of a CIRCLE inscribed with a CROSS, and it can represent the cradle of humanity, home, and/or a place of origin.
How we can represent Earth?
Earth is best represented by a globe like the one seen in Figure below because Earth is a sphere. Sizes and shapes of features are not distorted and distances are true to scale. A globe is the most accurate way to represent Earth’s curved surface. Globes usually have a geographic coordinate system and a scale.