GIS
This process transforms the spatial relationship of features on the Earth’s surface to a flat map.
What is projection?
This type of plate boundary occurs when two tectonic plates slide horizontally past one another.
What is a transform plate boundary?
Fossil trackways and coprolites are examples of this type of fossil.
What is a trace fossil?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This type of map emphasizes the spatial distribution of a theme, such as a map that shows the distribution of population densities by county.
What is a thematic map?
Appearing as rolling hills and valleys, this type of topography occurs when carbonates and dissolution is abundant.
What is Karst?
This process is determined by an individual's ability to survive and successfully reproduce in its environment.
What is natural selection?
This line of longitude, passing through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, is used as the global starting point for measuring east and west.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This data provides information about geospatial data.
What is metadata?
This tool is commonly used to obtain a strike and dip from a rock feature.
What is a Brunton Compass?
These reduced anatomical features, such as the tiny pelvic bones in modern snakes, remain in organisms even though natural selection has largely eliminated their original function.
What are vestigial structures?
This continent is home to the Sahara, the world’s largest hot desert.
What is Africa?
This spatial feature is represented by a series of lines and has the geometric properties of location, size, and perimeter.
What is a polygon?
This rock formation shows repeating dark and light layers of iron minerals and silica, recording the oxygenation of the ocean and atmosphere.
What is the Banded Iron Formation (BIF)?
This famous Los Angeles fossil site is known for trapping Ice Age animals in sticky asphalt for tens of thousands of years.
What is the La Brea Tar Pits?
This Central American country is the only one whose official language is English.
What is Belize?
This type of geographic information is generated and reported by the general public using Web applications and services.
What is Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)?
This orogeny that occurred from the late Cretaceous to early Paleogene created the Rocky Mountains through subduction at a very low angle
What is the Laramide orogeny?
A Devonian creature with limb-like fins, a mobile neck, gills and lungs, this fossil bridges the anatomical gap between lobe‑finned fishes and early tetrapods
What is Tiktaalik?
This South American range runs nearly the entire length of the continent and is the longest continental mountain range on Earth.
What are the Andes?