Heat Hazard
This type of area, with lots of pavement and few trees, has the highest heat risk.
What is URBAN.
Using a wildfire dashboard helps a natural hazards officer make important ___________?
What are DECISIONS?
This was the suspected source of the 1854 cholera outbreak.
What is the BROAD STREET PUMP?
This discipline, along with mapping is the backbone of GIS.
What is STATISTICS?
This type of map style uses colors like red and yellow to show areas with a high density of points.
What is a HEAT MAP?
The main goal of the activity was to counter heat waves by doing this.
What is PLANTING TREES?
Using the “Instant App” feature, you added this type of chart to show the 10 largest fires.
What is a LEADERBOARD (or countdown)?
John Snow used this type of spatial analysis to linking cholera to a water pump.
What is identifying CLUSTERS (or hotspots / patterns)?
This is the term for the different sets of information (like roads, trees, or boundaries) you see on a digital map.
What is LAYERS?
This type of data represents features on a map as cells or pixels.
What is RASTER / GRID data?
In the final map you sketched these to show where new trees should be planted.
What are (yellow-outlined) POLYGONS?
Controlled fires that are set on purpose.
What is PRESCRIBED?
This feature on a map stores extra information, like the number of deaths at an address, that you can click on.
What is ATTRIBUTE TABLE?
The core of spatial analysis is examining geographic locations and identifying these.
What is PATTERNS?
In Blending layers, this option was used to accentuate the intensity of the underlying layer.
What is MULTIPLY?
This type of data, showing relative temperature, was added as a colored grid layer.
What is HEAT SEVERITY (or intensity)?
This special type of data layer automatically updates with new information, like new fire locations.
What is LIVE (feed)?
Dr. Snow challenged the popular belief that cholera was spread by toxic vapor, or this.
What is MIASMA?
It combines useful maps, charts, and indicators of your data on a single screen.
What is a DASHBOARD?
On a GIS map, vector data represents features as these three shapes.
What are POINTS, LINES and POLYGONS?
This mapping technique made it possible to see both the heat intensity and heat risk layers clearly at the same time.
What is BLENDING?
States (or regions) that are next to one another and share borders.
What is CONTIGUOUS?
Bigger circles on the heat map represent the larger number of what on the modern version of Snow’s map?
What is DEATHS?
John Snow is considered a pioneer in disease mapping because he used this.
What is SPATIAL ANALYSIS (or overlay)?
The "Cholera Cases" heat map revealed this pattern.
What is a HOTSPOT (or density / cluster)?