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DEM

What is digital elevation model?

100

NDVI

What is normalized difference vegetation index?

100

30 degrees 45 minutes in decimal degrees

What is 30.75 degrees?

100

River of ice

What is a glacier?

100

$area

What is used to calculate the area of a polygon within a table?

200

GPS

What is Global positioning system?

200

KML

What is Keyhole Markup Language?

200

Under water DEM

What is Bathymetry?

200

Marks left on rocks from glacial movement

What are striations?

200

Data from a shapefile is stored in one.

What is a table?

300

IDW

What is Inverse weighted distance?

300

CRS

What is Coordinate Reference System?

300

The geometry for this feature is stored as a shape composed of a set of vector coordinates.

What is a shapefile?

300

Greenhouse gas emitted from wetlands and lakes in northern latitudes.

What is methane?

300

Used to connect or associate data from two tables.

What is a join or relate?

400

LiDAR

What is Light Detection And Ranging?

400

DMS

What is decimals minutes seconds?

400

A fragmentation statistics

What is>>>>Many answers?

400

Glacial landform primarily formed from glacial till.

What is drumlin?

400

Combines multiple input datasets of the same data type into a single, new output dataset. This tool can combine point, line, or polygon feature classes or tables.

What is Merge?

500

MODIS

What is Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer?

500

CHM

What is canopy height model?

500

NASA

What is National Aeronautics and Space Administration?

500

Consolidated rock underlying the surface of a terrestrial planet

What is Bedrock?

500

Creates polygons around input features to a specified distance around a point, line, or polygon. Buffer

What is Buffer?

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