GIS Basics
Curved lines along a map that join and delineate elevations.
What are contour lines?
This namesake lake is found on the Western edge of the City.
What is Lake Minnetonka?
A technology developed by the US military to provide geolocation and time information with the acronym of GPS.
What is the Global Positioning System?
This is Esri's current flagship desktop software application for GIS.
What is ArcGIS Pro?
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?
"Treat yo self" at this shopping mall.
What is Ridgedale (Mall)?
This manufacturer makes the Arrow and Skadi GNSS receivers used by Minnetonka GIS.
Who is EOS?
This ArcGIS Online app helps you tell a tale.
What is ArcGIS StoryMaps?
A sloop, yawl, ketch and schooner are all types of these.
What are boats?
Combining fields from one table with another based on an identical attribute.
What is an attribute join?
Currently, totaling 53 with one more planned, these are great places to get out and recreate.
What are parks?
The type of clocks used onboard GPS satellites to maintain precise time.
What are atomic clocks?
You can use this JavaScript-like code to customize popups or calculate values in a web map.
What is Arcade?
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?
These two interstates run through Minnetonka.
What are I-394 and I-494?
The minimum number of visible satellites required for a GPS receiver to determine a 3D position.
What is four?
ArcMap has officially retired but had a long run from ____ to ____.
What is 1999 and 2026?
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?
The shape of the earth.
What is a geoid (lumpy potato)?
The number of council wards in Minnetonka.
What is four?
Used to represent GNSS accuracy, this term's acronym is HRMS.
What is Horizontal Root Mean Square?
What is Jack Dangermond?
Mount Kilimanjaro is located in this country.
What is Tanzania?