Week 1 Assignment
Name:
1. 50 points
- Using the Explore tool, move around the map to examine the relationship between urban areas and conservation
lands. Zoom to your state and click a few of the conservation lands. When a layer is clicked with the Explore tool, a pop-up
dialogue box will appear with information about the selected layer. After exploring your state, open the PADUS attribute table and
sort it by acreage. Open the attribute table by right clicking the layer in the Contents pane, and sort it by right clicking the GIS
Acres column and then click Sort Descending. Provide the following data points for the top 5 largest protected lands in the
contiguous (lower 48) US
:
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Manager Name: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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Unit Name: Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument
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GIS Acres: 372,846,083
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Manager Name: Joint
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Unit Name: Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument
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GIS Acres:
372,843,605
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Manager Name: Joint
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Unit Name: Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument
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GIS Acres:
313,948,545
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Manager Name: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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Unit Name: Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument
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GIS Acres:
310,260,466
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Manager Name: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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Unit Name: Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument
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GIS Acres:
283,392,764
2. 50 points
- On the next 2 pages, insert 1 screenshot per page. For the first screenshot, zoom to the contiguous United States
(as shown on the last page of the Week 1 Instructions). Make sure the layers are turned on in the correct order in the Contents
pane, as specified in the Week 1 Instructions. For the second screenshot, zoom to your state and make sure the state is centered
on the screen.
When submitting screenshots, do not crop the images. Maximize the web browser and take a screenshot of the entire display. If
using dual monitors, only submit the image of the web browser used for the ArcGIS Pro software. Screenshots, in general, should
look like those included on the last 3 pages of the instructions. The screenshot should be maximized to fill the page in this
