Step-by-step explanation:
In cartography, a distortion is the misrepresentation of the area or
shape of a feature. There are no map projections that can maintain a
perfect scale throughout the entire projection because they are taking
a sphereoid and forcing it onto a flat surface. There are four main
types of distortion that come from map projections: distance,
direction, shape and area. The Mercator projection, for example,
distorts Greenland because of its high latitude , in the sense that its
shape and size are not the same as those on a globe . Another example
is in cylindrical projections. With projections the distortion is minimal
at the lines of tangency, or the line along which the projection and the
surface of the earth intersect. The further from those lines you get, the
more distortion appears in the projection. Different projections are
better at minimizing different typed of distortion. For example,
conformal conic projections mostly preserve shape, equidistant
projections preserve distance and equal area projections preserve area