World Geography
This country is home to the world’s largest coral reef system.
What is Australia?
The default basemap gallery in ArcGIS Online includes this satellite imagery option.
What is World Imagery?
The geoprocessing tool that creates a raster showing the distance from each cell to the nearest source.
What is Euclidean Distance?
This type of analysis creates zones around features based on a specified distance.
What is buffer analysis?
This projection minimizes distortion of shape but not area.
What is conformal projection?
The only sea on Earth with no coastline.
What is the Sargasso Sea?
This ArcGIS Online item type is used to share interactive maps.
What is a Web Map?
The process of converting features from a hardcopy or scanned image into vector data is called this.
What is digitizing?
This spatial analysis technique is used to identify statistically significant clusters of high or low values in a dataset.
What is hot spot analysis?
The term for the ratio between distance on a map and distance on the ground.
What is map scale?
This African country has the most pyramids.
What is Sudan?
This ArcGIS Online capability supports hosting custom vector basemaps.
What is publishing vector tile layers?
Known x,y coordinates that link locations on a raster dataset to real-world positions are called these.
What are control points?
This type of operation in map algebra applies a function to each cell in a raster independently.
What are local operations?
This classification method divides data into classes with equal frequency.
What is quantile classification?
The river that flows through Baghdad.
What is the Tigris?
The ArcGIS Online tool for creating story-driven maps with multimedia.
What is ArcGIS StoryMaps?
The maximum number of layers supported in a single ArcGIS Online web map before performance degradation is likely.
What is approximately 500 layers (though best practice is far fewer)?
This method estimates values at unmeasured locations based on nearby measurements.
What is interpolation?
This projection is most famous for navigation but distorts size near the poles.
What is Mercator?
The world’s highest waterfall, located in Venezuela.
What is Angel Falls?
The term for restricting access to shared content based on organizational roles.
What is item-level sharing with groups and roles?
Bringing together smaller features into larger ones, such as grouping buildings into neighborhoods, is called this operation.
What is aggregation?
This type of analysis is used to optimize routes, find nearest facilities, and perform service area analysis.
What is network analysis?
The term for a map that shows population density using shading.
What is a choropleth map?