GIS Exam 1

Which of the items on your driver's license contains location information?

When you ask, "Where is Atlanta?", you are looking for what kind of information?

When you ask, "What is there?", you are finding what kind of information?

When you ask, "What is the temperature today in Pensacola?" you are finding what kind of information?

You want to find a home with a price less than 1 million dollars from a GIS database. What kind of query are you performing?

You want to find a home within 500 m of Pensacola bay beach from a GIS database. What kind of query are you performing?

Which two types of information make up geographic information?

GPU stands for...

Which of these is the FORMAL definition of GIS?

____________ is the core function of the GIS program.

When was the first geographic information system created?

The most popular GIS program, and the one we use in this course, is ____________.

The size of the pixels (squares) on a raster is known as ___________.

____________ tables display data describing spatial features.

Which of the following is another name for a line of longitude?

Which lines on the graticule are parallel, run east-west, and mark angular distance north and south of the equator?

Which lines on the graticule run north-south, converge at the poles, and mark angular distance east & west of the prime meridian?

Which of the following statements best describes the shape of the earth?

To create a map that has minimal distortion but does not perfectly preserve any of the four spatial properties, which type of projection should be used?

To create a map for measuring how much total land is part of a national park, which spatial property should be preserved?

Which of the following map projections preserve direction from one or two points to every other point?

To create a map of the Florida Panhandle, which of the following projections is better?

For a map projection, the imaginary light source is at the center of the earth. What kind of projection is it?

Pensacola, Florida falls within which UTM zone?

What kind of map is a land use map?

Which map data classification method produces a map which has an equal number of features in each class?

An isohyet map is a

In a land use map, we use 1 to present urban, 2 for cropland, 3 for forest, 4 for water, ...
The land use codes 1, 2, 3, 4, ... are

If we make a linear transportation network map to represent absolute traffic volume for each segment of roads, the data is

Diverging color scheme is best for what kind of data classification?

On an isohyet map, equal value lines are used to represent:

One inch measured on a map represents 2,000 feet on the ground, what is the scale of the map?