The projection is a compromise between distorting shape and direction. distortions on this projection only happen at the high latitudes, and they're balanced by realistically sized shapes. a. robinson b. mercator c. winkel tripel d. goode's interrupted equal area conic projections are most accurate at a. lines of latitude touched by the cone. b. lines of longitude closest to the equator. c. lines of latitude closest to the poles. d. lines of longitude closest to the poles.

1- The correct answer is C. The Winkel Tripel projection is a compromise between distorting shape and direction. Distortions on this projection only happen at the high latitudes, and they're balanced by realistically sized shapes.

2- The correct answer is A. Conic projections are most accurate at lines of latitude touched by the cone.

Explanation:

1- The Winkel Tripel projection is a map projection design for the entire surface of the earth published by Oswald Winkel in 1921. It represents a successful compromise between area and angle accuracy and is therefore one of the most used world map projections. Compared to the similar Robinson projection, it achieves less distortion, but gives up the positional accuracy, so that curved latitude circles are created.

2- Conical projection is a type of cartographic projection in which the Earth's surface is represented on an imaginary cone, which is in contact with the sphere in a given parallel, or in which the cone intersects the sphere in two parallels.

In the conical projection, the deformations are small close to the contact parallels, but they tend to increase as the zones represented are more distant.

This type of projection should be used to represent regional maps, where only small parts of the earth's surface are presented.