Because of the difficulty of projecting a round, 3-dimensional earth on a 2-dimensional piece of paper, paper maps of the world intentionally must distort any or all of the following except
A) shapes of the land masses.
B) relative areas of the places on the map.
C) absolute altitude of the land masses.
D) compass directions.
E) distances between places.
Answer: C
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