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UNIT 6

MAP PROJECTIONS

I. READING AND LEARNING

Task 1. Read and memorize the following words and word-

combinations.
planar – плоский;

compass direction – напрям по компасу;
to distort – cпотворювати;
scale – шкала, масштаб;

map projection – картографічна проекція;
cartographer – картограф;
equal-area map – відображення, що зберігає площу;

conformal – рівнокутний, конформний;
equi-distant map – карта, яка відображає рівновіддалені
відстані;

navigational map – навігаційна карта;
dimensional – вимірний (наприклад, три-вимірний)

Task 2. Read and translate the text.

Text 1 Map projection

It is impossible to accurately represent the spherical surface of the
Earth on a flat piece of paper. While a globe can represent the planet
accurately, a globe large enough to display most features of the Earth

at a usable scale would be too large to be useful, so we use maps. Also
imagine peeling an orange and pressing the orange peel flat on a table
- the peel would crack and break as it was flattened because it can't

easily transform from a sphere to a plane. The same is true for the
surface of the Earth and that's why we use map projections.
The term map projection can be thought of literally as a
projection. If we were to place a light bulb inside a translucent globe

and project the image onto a wall - we'd have a map projection.
However, instead of projecting a light, cartographers use mathematical
formulas to create projections.

Maps are called projections because map-makers have to project a
3-D surface onto a 2-D map. A projection is a representation of one
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