What is a cross section or a cut away view?

Answer 1

Imagine whatever the subject is which your talking about, then 'cut it in half' the cross section is everything you can see now you've cut it in half.

like say, a mars bar (my fave XD) it usually just looks like a slab of chocolate, but bit into it and you see layer of like toffee and nougat and stuff. that's a cross section

hope my chocolatey description helped!

Answer 2

Cross Section Cut

Answer 3

Cross section would be equivalent to taking an object, this includes animals, and cutting through a portion of it until it became separated (e.g. cutting a tomato in half) and you look at the sliced side thats a cross section.

Cut-a-way would be taking that same tomato and peeling back a corner of the peel and then thru as many (or none) layers as you want until you get to the point of interest.

Answer 4

A cross-section is a picture drawn as if the object were cut. For example, the cross-section of an apple might look like this:
http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/apple1.jpg

A cutaway view, similar to a cross-section, is a drawing where certain parts have been removed so as to better see things behind them. For example, in this cutaway view of an airplane, the skin is invisible so you can see the internal structure:
http://www.f-111.net/articles/AIR_International/cutaway.jpg

The difference is, a cross-section shows the edge of a straight cut, whereas the cutaway view will arbitrarily make something invisible so as to show what would have been hidden otherwise.

Answer 5

an example of a cross section would be if you took an apple and split it strait down the middle and looked on the inside. or an arm (for biology). or the earth (for geology)

Answer 6

it's just a picture or drawing of something as if it has been cut in half. This is done so you can see the interior of that object

Answer 7

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