GIS History
Fill in the blank: GIS stands for Geographical ....
Information Systems
A thematic map that is used to represent statistical data using the color mapping symbology technique
Choropleth map
Ninety percent of the Earth’s population lives in which hemisphere?
The Northern Hemisphere
What technology, commonly found in smartphones, allows users to determine their exact location on the Earth's surface.
GPS
Who is a deity in Japanese Shinto mythology, symbolizing wisdom, knowledge, and agriculture
Kuebiko
Who founded Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri)?
Jack Dangermond and his wife Laura
What name is used to describe the shape of the Earth?
Geoid
What country is known as "Land of a Thousand Lakes"?
Finland
What platform, created by Esri, is widely used for creating, analyzing, and sharing interactive maps.
Who is a widely worshipped deity in Hinduism. He is revered as the remover of obstacles, the patron of arts and sciences, the deity of intellect and wisdom, and the god of beginnings.
Ganesh
Who is the "father of GIS"?
Geographer Roger Tomlinson
What type of map uses contour lines to show elevation and terrain.
topographic map
Which country has the longest coastline?
Canada
What online platform, launched in 2005, allows users to explore satellite imagery and street-level views of locations around the world.
Google Earth
What name did we call the people that used to go out and collect our data in person?
Explorers
In 1854 what physician created maps of Cholera cases to trace the origin back to one water source in London.
John Snow!
What type map uses different colors or shading to represent data, such as population density or climate zones
Thematic map
Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things. Is what law?
What is the Tobler’s First Law of Geography?
What is the data format, often used in GIS, stores vector data in the form of points, lines, and polygons for mapping.
A shapefile
In the summer of 2018 where did dataplor get into an accelerator program?
Honolulu, Hawaii.
The development of GIS was significantly influenced by advancements in this type of technology, which uses sensors on aircraft or satellites to capture Earth's surface data.
Remote Sensing
What is the map feature, often found in the corner, shows the relationship between distance on the map and distance in real life.
The scale
What is the only continent without a desert, as its climate is mostly tropical or temperate.
Europe
What type of data, used in GIS, represents continuous surfaces like temperature, elevation, or precipitation.
Raster Data
How many POIs are in dataplor's database?
Over 350 Million!