The characteristic of projections that portray accurate sizes but distort the shapes of landmasses is called ________.

A) conformality
B) sinusoidal
C) equivalence
D) azimuthality
E) polyconic


Answer: C) equivalence

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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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