GIS Basics
Curved lines along a map that join and delineate elevations.
What contour lines?
This location is the center of the Northwest hemisphere.
What is the 45-90?
This CPZ team relies on GIS mapping to schedule and manage inspection locations throughout the County.
What is the Admin Team?
What is projection?
This was ET's favorite snack in "E.T., The Extra Terrestrial".
What is Reese's Pieces?
The term used for the geographical representation of water features such as lakes, rivers, oceans, and seas.
What is Hydrography?
This is the number of supervisory districts in Marathon County.
What is 38?
Zoning
What is QGIS?
RPL
What is the nadir?
A sloop, yawl, ketch and schooner are all types of these.
What are boats?
This is the shape of the earth.
What is a geoid (lumpy potato)?
Rich Seubert, former NFL player, who played New York Giants 2001 – 2010 grew up in this unincorporated community in Marathon County.
What is Rozellville?
The Conservation Team uses GIS to map parcels in this HUC-12 watershed that they have conducted field visits on in hopes they will visit every parcel.
What is the Fenwood Creek Watershed?
What is interpolation?
In 1950, this future symbol of fire prevention was rescued from a fire in a New Mexico forest.
Who is Smokey the Bear?
A single entity representing a real-world object on a map, such as points, lines, or polygons.
What is a feature?
Wausau was founded as a lumber town in 1939 originally called this, due to the rapids on the WI River.
What is Big Bull Falls?
POWTS
What is ArcGIS Online?
addressing
What is spatial modeling?
A flock of geese in flight can be called a skein or wedge; the same group on the ground or in the water is this.
What is a gaggle?
Technology that is used to create, manage analyze, and map all types of data.
What is a geographic information systems?
Rib Mountain is made mostly of a this very strong rock that was formed about 1.5 billion years ago.
What is quartzite?
Planning
What is PostGIS?
land information council
What is Tobler's First Law of Geography?
Apparently still learning to duck, tight end Cam McCormick of this Pac-12 school got a 9th year of eligibility in 2022.
What is the University of Oregon?