On which one of the following projections do great circle routes appear as straight lines?
A)Mercator projection
B)Goode's homolosine projection
C)any conic projection
D)a gnomonic projection
E)Winkel-Tripel

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In a gnomonic projection, great circle routes appear as straight lines because it is based on projecting the Earth's surface onto a tangent plane at a single point, so any straight line on that plane becomes a great circle route on the Earth's surface.

On Which One of the Following Projections Do Great Circle