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GISDAY2020; BASIC OF GIS

Total questions: 9

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the best answer to describe GIS?

a)

GIS is any computerized information system that is designated to store,manipulated,retrieve,analyze and display spatially referenced data.

b)

GIS is any non-computerized information system that is designated to store,manipulated,retrieve,analyze and display spatially referenced data.

c)

GIS is an accurate worldwide navigational and surveying facility based on the reception of an signal from an array of orbitting satellites.

2.

GIS stands for

a)

Geographic Information System

b)

Generic Information System

c)

Geological Information System

d)

Geographic Information Sharing

3.

What is 'Metadata'?

a)

It is 'data about data'

b)

It is 'big data'

c)

It is 'oceanic data'

d)

It is 'contour data'

4.

Choose the main components of GIS.

a)

Methods

b)

People

c)

Data

d)

Hardware

e)

Soil

5.

What are the major functions of GIS?

a)

To acquire data from the environment

b)

To store information

c)

To analyze data

d)

To generate information based on data analysis

6.

What are the essential features of a map?

a)

Directional reference

b)

Color

c)

Title

d)

Background music

7.

What is the name of the Father of GIS?

a)

Roger Tomhilfiger

b)

Ron Weasley

c)

Roger Federer

d)

Roger Tomlinson

8.

What is the first law of Geography?

a)

Every object will remain at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line unless compelled to change its state by the action of an external force.

b)

To lay out the most important events in the history of the Circle of the World.

c)

Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related to each other.

d)

When two objects interact, they apply forces to each other of equal magnitude and opposite direction.

9.

The art of making map is also known as?

a)

Tomography

b)

Suffix-graphy

c)

Cartography

d)

Ophthalmography