What is the FGDC and what is their role in the GIS field?

Need short answers for this questions

1) What is the FGDC and what is their role in the GIS field?

2) Visit https://www.gisci.org/ . What is needed to become a GISP?

3) What does MACURISA stand for and what are they?

4) https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/  is NOAA’s Digital Coast site. Open and describe one of the Tools available on this site.

5) Open the NJDEP’s Landscape Project site http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/ensp/landscape/index.htm click on the Landscape Project Story Map.