Quiz Flashcards
Which of the following are key applications for GIS?
-Environmental science
-Agriculture
-Physics
-Demographic studies
Environmental studies, Agri and Demographic studies
How are land parcels represented in GIS?
-Points
-Polygons
-Lines
-Coordinates
Polygons
The ITM co- ordinate for the Spire of Dublin on O’Connell street is: 715830, 734697 which means:
(A)- the first figure is the easting and means that the location is 715,830 metres east from the false origin(along the x axis). The second figure is the birthing and puts the location 734,697 metres north of the false origin (along the y axis)
Roads would be which kind of data?
-Polygon
-Line
-Raster
-Points
Line
A projected coordinate system has constant lengths, angles, and areas across the two dimensions.
True or False?
True
Universal Transverse Mercator is an example of geographic projection system.
True or False?
False
Uniform cell size is a description of:
-Raster data
-Vector data
-Point data
-None of the above
Raster data
Which tool in ARCGIS does the following:
-Clip
-Intersect
-Merge
A- Clip
B- Intersect
C- Merge
GIS is a system and not a computer application.
True or false?
True
Spatial data acquisition is achieved by means of:
- Satellite and remote sensing
- Handheld and vehicle GPS
- Unmanned Aerial vehicles
-All of the above
All of the above
The layer S44E171 displayed in the map window and on the contents pane represents a clear example of a polygon feature class (shape file).
True or false?
False
90• 30’ 00” is an example of what coordinate format?
Degrees, minutes and seconds.
Map, insert, analysis, view, edit, imagery, and share are tools located in:
-contents pane
-catalog pane
-geo processing tools
-ribbon
Ribbon
In class you learnt there are two main types of files used in GIS to store and display data. In this map (pH of Europe map) which one of those two main types of GIS file would the pH layer be?
Raster
Spectral data from satellite imagery is made up by pixels.
True or false?
True
