What is the main difference between different types of map projections?

a) the type of information they display

b) the area of the earth they focus on

c) the amount of physical space they take up

d) the way they distort the earth’s landmasses

D, because a map is a 2D shape, not a rectangle, and the earth is a sphere, so for example, a landmass would look a lot bigger if it was at the poles. 

D) the way they distort the Earth’s landmasses

Explanation:

The major difference in the map projections based on the area they distort as all he map projection are projected to some sort of the earth surface areas as they tend to depict the landmass in different areas as related to the shape, size and the direction of the projection of the landmass. There can be any type of the projection like the conformal and the equal area, the equidistant and the true direction bearing projection and thus use the different techniques like the cylinder and the cone and the globe to depict the surfaces of the earth that has a certain characteristics to that of the landmass and the area shown. Like the Mercator projection distorts the northern arctic zone and shows the Greenland as bigger in size than that of South America. Someportjectin is made to depict the polar areas and has some degrees of distortions.