--- title: Projections: why Greenland looks huge — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Geography description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 3 «Projections: why Greenland looks huge» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/) / Projections: why Greenland looks huge # Projections: why Greenland looks huge The 15 questions of lesson 3 «Projections: why Greenland looks huge» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with their options, 79 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/t1/) — Why would a 1569 sailor care more about correct directions than correct sizes? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/t2/) — A shape is stretched three times wider and three times taller. How many times bigger does its area look? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/t3/) — on google maps greenland is like as big as africa so it must be massive right? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/t4/) — Why does a flight from London to Los Angeles look curved on a flat map? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/t5/) — Your EU5 Muscovy looks endless next to India. What should you remember? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/t6/) — Why might a compromise map like the Winkel tripel be best for a classroom wall? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/t7/) — Why do online maps care more about street shapes than country sizes? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/t8/) — Why is Antarctica often a long white strip at the bottom of maps? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/t9/) — What would happen if you tried to make a Mercator map that reached the North Pole? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/t10/) — Teacher's map puts the Pacific in the middle and Europe at the edge. A kid says "that map's broken". Who is right? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/t11/) — Which shows country sizes correctly, a Mercator or a Mollweide map? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/e1/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the principal deficiency of the Mercator projection? — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/e2/) — Determine the factor by which the area of Africa exceeds that of Greenland. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/e3/) — Identify the class of projection whereby the relative areas of all territories are faithfully preserved. — right ✓ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/3-projections-why-greenland-looks-huge/e4/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the shortest path between two points upon the globe. — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [2. Directions, latitude and longitude](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/2-directions-latitude-and-longitude/) - next →: [4. Time zones and the date line](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/) - ↑ back to [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/)