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A secant projection differs from a tangent one in that the surface

  • A.does not touch the globe at all
  • B.is wrapped around the poles
  • C.cuts the globe along two lines
  • D.touches the globe at one point only

Answer: C

Cutting the globe gives two lines of true scale instead of one, so distortion is smaller overall across the mapped band. The scale runs slightly small between the two lines and slightly large outside them, which is a better trade than one line of truth and error growing steadily away from it.

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