Vocabulary
This word means facts or information collected for analysis
What is data?
A photo taken from an airplane that shows landscapes and human features from above.
What is an aerial photograph?
What is the abbreviation for Geographic Information System?
What is GIS?
Imaginary lines that run east to west around Earth and measure how far north or south a place is.
What are lines of latitude?
A person who makes maps.
What is a cartographer?
A image of Earth taken from space by sensors, often used to study weather and land use.
What is a digital satellite image (DSI)?
GIS can combine layers of information. Name one example of a layer a GIS might show.
What are roads, land use, elevation, waterways, boundaries, population?
Imaginary lines that run north to south from pole to pole and measure how far east or west a place is.
What are lines of longitude?
A flat drawing that shows where place are and features things such as roads, boundaries, and mountains.
What is a map?
The line on a map that shows how map distances compare to real world distances.
What is a map scale?
True or False: GIS can be used to find the best rout for emergency vehicles and to help plan where to build a new school.
What is True?
The latitude line at 0 that divides the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
A round model of Earth used to show the continents and oceans accurately.
What is a globe?
A drawing that shows numerical information, like heights over time or changes in population. It typically uses bars or lines.
What is a bar graph and line graph?
GIS often uses data points with coordinates. Which two coordinates are most commonly used to place a point on Earth?
What are latitude and longitude?
The longitude line at 0 that divides the Earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the prime meridian?
A visual display that show parts of a whole, often in slices with percentages.
What is a pie chart or circle graph?
The number of people living in a unit of area.
What is population density?
How does GIS help city planners use population density data?
What is GIS helps city planners map population density to decide where services, roads, or schools are needed most?
If a city is at 30N and 90W which tells you how far North it is and which tells you how far west it is
What is 30N and 90W?