Geography
In GIS, this type of data model represents real-world geographic features using points, lines, and polygons.
What is vector data
Established in 1872 and sitting atop a massive volcanic caldera, this American site is widely considered to be the first national park in the world.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
NRG Station on the Broad Street Line was originally called
What is Pattison Station
Modeled after the Champs-Élysées in Paris, this diagonal boulevard famously breaks William Penn's rigid street grid as it cuts northwest from City Hall to the Art Museum.
What is the Benjamin Franklin Parkway?
Designed by the international architecture firm Snøhetta and opened in 2019, this massive, futuristic structure is the campus centerpiece
What is the Charles Library?
This is the only U.S. state to border exactly one other state.
What is Maine?
This climate pattern describes the unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, significantly altering global weather systems and precipitation.
What is El Nino?
This maintenance facility in Chester County maintains SEPTA's fleet of push-pull Regional Rail equipment
What is the name of the Eagles' Mascot?
This was the original name of Cecil B Moore Avenue
What is Columbia Avenue?
You have to move your watch forward a record 3.5 hours when crossing from these two countries who share a land border.
In a massive environmental success story, the 1987 Montreal Protocol banned this specific class of synthetic chemicals, allowing the hole in the ozone layer to finally begin healing.
What are chlorofluorocarbons (or CFCs)?
This U.S. city's light rail system runs through an 1874 tunnel originally built for the Eads Bridge, making it the oldest rail tunnel used by a rapid transit line in the U.S.
What is the St. Louis Metrolink?
In 1981, this was MTV's first music video, and filmed right here in Philadelphia
What is Video killed the Radio Star?
This notorious Serial Killer who murdered over 30 young adults in the 1970's enrolled in Temple for one semester.
Who is Ted Bundy?
Diomede Island (Russia) and Little Diomede Island (U.S.) are only 2.4 miles apart, but because the International Date Line runs between them, they are separated by this amount of time.
What is 21 hours?
Move over, trees! Up to 80% of the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere is actually produced by these microscopic, photosynthesizing marine organisms.
What is phytoplankton?
This is Amtrak's longest route at 2,728 miles.
What is the Texas Eagle?
This famous stadium was the home of the Philadelphia Phillies on 20th and Lehigh hosted legends such as Jackie Robinson and Babe Ruth.
What is Connie Mack Stadium / Schibe Park?
Before finally consolidating onto the Main Campus in 2009, Temple's prestigious Tyler School of Art was geographically isolated for over 70 years, operating on a 14-acre estate in this Montgomery County suburb just outside city limits.
What is Elkins Park?
This is the highest mountain in the United States East of the Mississippi
What is Mount Mitchell?
This U.S. city, the largest in it's state, has the highest amount of it's land cover as parkland.
What is Anchorage, Alaska
This commuter rail service is the only one left in the United States the maintains a fleet of Budd's legendary RDC's for revenue service.
What is Portland's Westside Express?
The Reichstag building in Berlin, most notable as being the site of the iconic photo of the Soviet's raising their flag over Berlin in 1945, was directly inspired by this Philadelphia landmark.
What is the Memorial Hall / Please Touch Museum?
In the 1950s, Temple purchased and paved over Monument Cemetery to build athletic fields. In a bizarre piece of Philly infrastructure history, thousands of the displaced granite headstones were dumped into the Delaware River to serve as riprap foundation for this major bridge.
What is the Betsy Ross Bridge?