Data formats and file extensions
Symbology/cartography
GIS acronyms
Vector Analysis tools
Raster/Imagery tools
100
This file extension denotes an ArcGIS Pro project file
What is aprx?
100
You should most likely use this color for streams and water bodies
What is blue?
100
GIS B.S. is the abbreviated name of that UMD degree program
What is the Geographic Information Science Bachelor of Science?
100
This tool creates a new vector dataset of polygons describing the area(s) of inclusion at a set distance from a feature or several features
What is Buffer?
100
This tool allows to change the cell size of a raster dataset
What is Resample / resampling?
200
A folder with a name ending in ".gdb" and a bunch of weird files in it
What is an Esri file geodatabase?
200
In ArcGIS Pro, this symbology mode allows you to color features using a quantitative color ramp
What is graduated colors?
200
GISP is the abbreviation for this professional credential
What is the Geographic Inofrmation Systems Professional certification?
200
This tool takes all input vector datasets and merges them together, creating a new output dataset with all the features, split at their computing intersections
What is Union?
200
This tool calculates the azimuthal direction faced by the terrain, along the line of greatest slope
What is Aspect?
300
This open vector format is structured into different computer files, including one file with a .dbf extension that stores attribute data.
What is the shapefile format?
300
In ArcGIS Pro, you would use one of these symbology modes to map the population of cities
What are graduated symbols or proportional symbols?
300
The 3 letters DEM stand for that type of dataset
What is a Digital Elevation Model?
300
This tool aggregates features based on a specific attribute. The output is a new vector dataset.
What is Dissolve?
300
This tools allows to change the values of a raster dataset, by mapping old values to new values, or grouping old values to new values
What is Reclassify?
400
This file format is used to represent geographic data in Earth browsers, such as Google Earth or Google Maps
What is the KML or Keyhole Markup Language format?
400
The image below is an example of this type of maps
What are dot density maps?
400
The abbreviation for this Census Bureau collection of datasets stands for "topologically integrated geographic encoding and referencing".
What are TIGER data?
400
This tool matches vector features from two datasets based on their geographical relationships
What is Spatial Join?
400
These tools allow to line up imagery data or scanned old maps to other GIS datasets
What are georeferencing tools?
500
This extension denotes a projection file, used for instance in the shapefile structure
What is prj?
500
The following image is an example of this type of map
What is an unclassed choropleth map?
500
This way of subdividing and referencing the land in the United States is abbreviated as PLSS
What is the Public Land Survey System?
500
In ArcGIS Pro, this tool creates a feature class containing points generated from the centroids of the input features or placed within the input features.
What is Feature to Point?
500
These tools allow to seamlessly display/process together several raster datasets similar in nature but covering different extents
What are Mosaic tools?