2.5 The use of technology in data collection and analysis

Fill in the blank: Electronic mapping systems designed to capture, store, analyze, and manage geographic information are known as _________.

• Geospatial/ Geographic information systems (GIS)

• Global Positioning Systems (GPS)

• Remote Sensing Systems (RSS)

• Cartographic Mapping Systems (CMS)

Fill in the blank: Extremely large sets of numerical information collected using technology and analyzed using computers are referred to as _________.

• Big Data

• Small Data

• Data Mining

• Data Warehousing

Fill in the blank: the amount of space that a substance or object occupies, or that is enclosed within a container, especially when great is called _________.

• Volume

• Density

• Mass

• Weight

A unit of information equal to one thousand million million (10^15) is called _______.

• Petabyte

• Gigabyte

• Terabyte

• Megabyte

A unit of information equal to Quintilian (10^18) is called _______.

• Exabyte

• Petabyte

• Terabyte

• Gigabyte

A unit of information equal to one million million (10^12) is called _______.

• Terabyte

• Gigabyte

• Megabyte

• Kilobyte

To have a use, or worth is called _______.

• Value

• Cost

• Price

• Expense

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What is the term for 'Diverse data'?

• A) Velocity

• B) Variety

• C) Veracity

• D) Data Stream

What is the term for 'the process of transmitting a continuous flow of data, typically via data processing software'?

• Data Stream

• Variety

• Velocity

• Veracity

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What is the term for 'Speed with magnitude and direction'?

• A) Veracity

• B) Data Stream

• C) Velocity

• D) Variety