Cartography & GIS
A map that shows elevation using contour lines.
What is a topographic map?
The largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This term refers to the movement of people form rural areas to urban areas, which has been a major trend in the 21st century.
What is urbanization?
The most widely used satellite program for land observation, first launched in 1972.
What is LANDSAT?
This U.S. state is mentioned in the lyrics of Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver.
What is West Virginia?
This line of longitude, located at 0o, runs through Greenwich, England, and serves as the global reference for time zones.
What is the prime meridian?
The largest desert in the world by area.
What is Antartica?
The world's most spoken first language.
What is Mandarin Chinese?
This open-source programming language is widely used in statistical analysis, data visualization, and for creating maps.
What is R?
Some scientists argue that human impact on Earth's ecosystems has ushered in a new geological epoch known by this name.
What is the Anthropocene?
This type of map projection distorts shape but preserves area.
What is an equal-area projection?
This famous set of islands in the Pacific helped Charles Darwin develop his theory of evolution by natural selection.
What are the Galapagos Islands?
The increasing connectedness of people, businesses, and cultures worldwide due to advances in communication and transportation is called this.
What is globalization?
The part of the electromagnetic spectrum best for detecting vegetation health.
What is near-infrared (NIR)?
This video game franchise is known for its highly detailed open-world maps, including Vice City.
What is Grand Theft Auto?
This type of color scheme is used in maps to highlight deviations from a central value, often with two contrasting colors fading toward a neutral midpoint.
What is a diverging color scheme?
This oceanic phenomenon occurs when warm water shifts eastward in the Pacific, impacting global weather.
What is El Niño?
The study of population characteristics and trends.
What is demography?
NDVI stands for this.
What is Normalized Difference Vegetation Index?
What is 2012?
The person who first used the term "geographic information system" (GIS).
Who is Roger Tomlinson?
The Wallace Line is an example of a biogeographic boundary that separates the distinct faunal regions of these two continents.
What are Asia and Australia?
The model that describes the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates.
What is the demographic transition model?
The satellite instrument that detects sea-surface temperature changes linked to climate change.
What is MODIS?
This song by Johnny Cash lists U.S. and world cities in its lyrics.
What is I've Been Everywhere?