GIS Day: Geographic Information & Spatial Analysis

Which of the following is related to GIS

• Euclidean space

• Ramanujan space

• Pythagorian space

• None of the above

Pieces of information that provide a description of the location features in GIS is called

• attributes

• vector data

• locations

• maps

What are the two general data formats used in GIS

• Vector and raster

• Points and lines

• Features and attributes

• Digital and paper maps

How are neighborhoods represented in GIS?

• Polygons

• Lines

• Points

• Locations

"Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things,"

Who said this?

• The First Law of Physics by Isaac Newton

• The First Law of Geography by William Thayer

• The First Law of Geography by Waldo Tobler

• The First Law of Geology by Edward Scrivenor

Hot spots indicate statistically significant __________ while cold spots indicate statistically significant __________.

• grouping, randomness

• clustering, dispersion

• density, distribution

• positive, negative

The process of using data points with known values to estimate values at unknown points (in the same region or nearby region) is called spatial ___________.

• prediction

• adjustment

• reflection

• interpolation

Which of the following statements is true regarding geospatial data precision?

• It is common to find mixed resolution data within the same dataset

• Precision is only important to "small scale" analyses and will not affect "large scale" analyses

• A GIS dataset built to map " small scale phenomena" may be inappropriate to use a "large scale" analysis

• Imprecise data is not useful at any scale

Locations can be visualized using coordinates; x and y.

x represents __________ while y represents _____________

• latitude, longitude

• horizontal, vertical

• longitude, latitude

• North-South, East-West

Examples of 'continuous' attributes to location data are

• Air temperature

• Barometric pressure

• Soil salinity

• Elevation

• All of the above