Introduction to GIS

Last week we were introduced to something called GIS. ( Geographic information systems).This system helped us look at the neighborhood as well as different countries in many different ways. GIS informs you on the statistics of certain places in the world, for example we was able to look at the amount of phone lines as well as cell phones per person. We was also able to look at research that showed us showed us the major things like where earthquakes and volcano's have been discovered to the small things like the percentage of agriculture in and around that specific area.

As we begained to comprehend how to use GIS we was able to create our own versions. My map showed the amount of earthquakes recorded at the time compared to the amount recorded in 2003 and 2004. I also took information about the area. What kind of land it was the average temperature and connected it to the earthquakes to see if it had something to do with the ones that were active and the was that were solfatara(blowing out gases that were possibly poisonous). I discovered that most of the earthquakes were cluttered in the areas where plates would meet especially in and around Japan within the pacific and Chinese-Indonesia plates.