GIS DAY 2020 QUIZ

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GIS DAY 2020 QUIZ

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1) _______ first coined the term geographic information system (GIS) and has been acknowledged as the "Father of GIS." *

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P R Pisharoty

George Joseph

Gerardus Mercator

Roger Tomlinson

2) Title, legend, scale are part of ______. *

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Direction

Vector data models

Maps

Raster data models

3) “Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things" is the _________ given by __________. *

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First law of thermodynamics, Rudolf Clausius

First law of geography, Waldo Tobler

First law of motion, Isaac Newton

Second law of geography, Rudolf Clausius

4) Fields value in an attribute table can be ________. *

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Discrete only

Continuous only

Discrete or continuous

None of these

5) Which of the following is not an example of datasets that are continuous? *

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Elevation

Temperature

Precipitation

Tree location

6) Which among the following is not related to GIS software? *

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Arc GIS Desktop

Arc View

QGIS

Photoshop

7) Uniform cell size is a description of ______. *

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A raster data structure

A vector data structure

A point data structure

A polygon data structure

8) Which of the following is an example of a quantitative attribute? *

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Name

Population

Address

Telephone Number

9) Satellite images & Photographs are examples of what type of data? *

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Vector Data

Feature Data

Theme Data

Image Data

10) .shp file is a standard database file used for _______. *

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storing geometries

storing attribute data

storing projection of data

deleting data

11) Control points are best described as ________. *

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Areas on the map where projection can easily change

Points on the map that do not have a spatial reference

Common locations used in aligning two datasets

None of the above

12) Which of the following is not an example of spatial data? *

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Times of particular events.

Points showing the location of few objects.

Lines showing the route of linear objects

Polygons showing the area occupied by a particular land use.

13) _______ are numeric and have a linear scale, however they do not have a true zero and can therefore not be used to measure relative magnitudes. *

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Interval data

Nominal data

Ordinal data

Ratio Scale data

14) Generally, raster model stores _____ data and vector models store ____ data. *

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discrete, continuous

continuous, discrete

algebraic, discrete

continuous, algebraic

15) ______ simplify information about a region by showing areas with continuous distribution and thus these maps are more common for mapping ________ & ________. *

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Choropleth Maps, surface elevations & amount of precipitation

Choropleth Maps, population density & differences in land use

Isopleth Maps, surface elevations & amount of precipitation

Dot Maps, atmospheric pressure & type of forest cover

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