Basics
This tool is used to measure the distance between two points on a map.
What is the measurement tool?
This map by John Snow in 1854 helped trace the source of a cholera outbreak in London.
What is the Cholera Map?
What is a shapefile?
Located in northern Africa, it's known for its vast stretches of sand dunes.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This technology uses GPS satellites to provide location data and navigation information for various applications.
What is GNSS? (Global Navigation Satellite System)
This tool is used to define the area of interest for analysis, often by drawing a shape on the map.
What is the selection tool?
First used in his 16th-century map, this was created by Gerardus Mercator.
What is the Mercator Projection?
This term describes data that represents specific geographic features with distinct boundaries, such as land parcels.
What is discrete data?
This geographical feature is defined as a large, flat area of land that is significantly elevated above the surrounding area.
What is a plateau?
This technology enables users to perform spatial analysis and modeling using non-local GIS platforms.
What is cloud based GIS?
This term describes the process of creating a visual representation of spatial data.
What is cartography?
Created in the 1960s, this map helped astronauts navigate the surface of Earth's only natural satellite.
What is the Lunar Map? (Moon Map)
This term refers to data that describes the shape and location of geographical features, such as elevation or temperature.
What is thematic data?
This phenomenon refers to the movement of the Earth, often causing earthquakes and volcanic activity.
What is plate tectonics?
This analysis technique involves identifying future spatial patterns based on historical data.
What is spatial forecasting or predictive analysis?
This term refers to the process of matching spatial data with a specific geographic coordinate system.
What is spatial referencing?
This application is commonly used for navigation and route planning on smartphones.
This spatial data type is used to represent continuous surfaces and is often used for environmental modeling.
What is a digital elevation model? (DEM)
This volcanic archipelago in the Pacific Ocean is known for its unique biodiversity and was studied extensively by Charles Darwin.
What are the Galápagos Islands?
This method involves creating a 3D representation of land or urban areas using elevation data.
What is terrain modeling?
This process involves updating and maintaining the accuracy of spatial data over time.
What is data maintenance?
This 21st-century interactive map platform allows users to create and share custom maps with various data layers.
What is ArcGIS Online? (AGOL)
This data type is used to represent features that change over time, such as weather patterns or economic indicators.
What is temporal data?
This body of water, the largest lake in Africa, is known for its biodiversity and is bordered by three countries.
What is Lake Victoria?
This technology involves the use of algorithms to improve and automate spatial data analysis without human intervention.
What is machine learning?