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Perspective Taking

Here is a view of a landscape.
Based on this map view of earthquake epicenter locations, envision how the data would look on an EW profile.
Here is a map of the same landscape. Would you see the view above if you were standing at position A, B, C, or D on the map?
after Piaget and Inhelder (1948/1967)
Interpreting 3-D Data
after Tarbuck and Lutgens (1994)