Projections
Geographers/STEM Influencers
Cartography
Local Geography of Oregon
Critical GIS
100

This always occurs as a result of projections

What is distortion?





100

This English physician mapped cholera deaths allowing them to ask questions and solve problems, just like we do with GIS today.

Who is John Snow?

100

Color hue is the best choice to visualize this type of data

What is qualitative data?

100

These are  six of Oregon's Cascade volcanoes

What are Mt. Hood, Mt. Jefferson, North Sister, South Sister, Middle Sister, Mt. Bachelor, and Mount McLoughlin?

100

This is the editor of the seminal text "Ground Truth"

Who is John Pickles

200

This algorithm is used to display all layers using one coordinate system

What is on-the-fly projection?

200

This Latina NASA Flight Director just put a rover on Mars.

Who is Diana Trujillo?

200

This type of map is a person's point of view perception of their area of interaction

What is a mental map

200

This is approximately the depth of Crater Lake

What is 2000' (to be exact 1949 feet)

200

This concept describes partnerships that create and negotiate different knowledges

What is the co-production of knowledge?

300

This is a technique used to evaluate distortion

What is Tissot Indicatrix?

300

This American geologist and oceanographic cartographer who, in partnership with Bruce Heezen, created the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor.

Who is Marie Tharp?




300

This type of classification is useful for showing rankings and ordinal data

What is quantile classification?

300

This town lies at the geographical center of Oregon

What is Prineville?

300

This emerging field attends to relations of social power and natural science.

What is Critical Physical Geography?

400

This projection is used in the Oregon State Plane Coordinate System

What is the Lambert Conformal Conic

400

This mathematician is known for their contributions to the modeling of the shape of the Earth as well as satellite geodesy models that led to GPS

Who is Gladys MaeWest?

400

This map is symbolized by using different color values based on quantitative data.  

What is a choropleth map?

400

This geological formation created by a collapsed sea cave traps ocean water from the ocean, creating dramatic churning and sprays of water that reach hundreds of feet in the air

What is the Devils Churn?

400

This framework challenges race-neutral representations of space.

What is Critical Race Spatial Analysis?

500

This is a model of global mean sea level that is used to measure precise surface elevations

What is the geoid?

500

This geographer focuses on abolition and carcel geographies.

Who is Ruth Wilson Gilmore?

500

This technique is used in making each feature appear distinct from the rest of the features in the map

What is figure-ground

500

This is the place in Oregon where the largest living organism in the world dwells

What is under the Blue Mountains within the Malheur National Forest (the humongous fungus)

500

This term describes efforts to map against dominant power structures.

What is counter mapping?

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