Week 8, 9, 10

Question 1

What is the concept for this definition?
=belief that all observations w/in an area will exhibit the same values?
–> logical error inferring about something

a) first law of Geography
b) ecological fallacy
c) modifiable areal unit problem

Answer 1

b) ecological fallacy

Question 2

What is the concept for this term?
=our numeration unit influences the result of our analysis?
=when smaller areal units are combined into fewer larger ones
= variation in map decreases

-enumeration unit = square, cencus tract, county

a) second law of Geography
b) ecological fallacy
c) modifyable areal unit problem

Answer 2

c) modifiable areal unit problem

Question 3

What is not 1 of the spatial queries?

a) proximity
b) membership (containment)
c) Interject
d) intersect

Answer 3

c) interject

Question 4

What term concerns with:

what features are close to a target feature?

a) proximity
b) membership
c) intersect

Answer 4

a) proximity

Question 5

What term concerns with:

what features are inside a target feature?

a) proximity
]b) membership
c) intersect

Answer 5

b) membership

Question 6

What term concerns with:

what features cross a target feature?

a) proximity
b) membership
c) intersect

Answer 6

c) intersect

Question 7

What is not a Spatial Query related to Proximity?

a) search by distance
b) adjacency
c) line-in-polygon
d) search radius

Answer 7

c) line-in-polygon

Question 8

What is not a Spatial Query related to Membership?

a) line-in-polygon
b) line-on-polygon
c) polygon-in-polygon
d) point-in-polygon

Answer 8

b) line-on-polygon

Question 9

What is not a Spatial Query related to Intersect?

a) Point/Polygon Intersection
b) Line/Polygon Intersection
c) Polygon/Polygon intersection
d) Line/Line Intersection

Answer 9

a) Point/Polygon Intersection

Question 10

What Vector Overlay tool accomplishes:

• uses the OR operator
• only for 2 polygon input layers

Preserves

• all features
• attribtute info
• spatial extents from both input layers

a) Union
b) Intersect
c) Clip
d) Buffer
e) Dissolve
f) Erase

Answer 10

a) union

Question 11

What Vector Overlay tool accomplishes:

=employs the AND operator
-gets all the input attributes (original + intersect) in output

a) Union
b) Intersect
c) Clip
d) Buffer
e) Dissolve
f) Erase

Answer 11

b) intersect

Question 12

What Vector Overlay tool accomplishes:

=extracts those featuers from an input line/poluygon layer that falls within the spatial extent
- only cookie cutter attribute

a) Union
b) Intersect
c) Clip
d) Buffer
e) Dissolve
f) Erase

Answer 12

c) clip

Question 13

What Vector Overlay tool accomplishes:

=combines all adjacent features with the same attribtue values
- no unnecessary, intervening line segments = same extent as original

a) Union
b) Intersect
c) Clip
d) Buffer
e) Dissolve
f) Erase

Answer 13

e) dissolve

Question 14

What Vector Overlay tool accomplishes:

=surrpounding areas preserved
- opposite of clip

a) Union
b) Intersect
c) Clip
d) Buffer
e) Dissolve
f) Erase

Answer 14

f) erase

Question 15

What is the term for this Python Attribute:
=the literal value you are working with

a) literals
b) variables
c) lists
d) dictionaries

Answer 15

a) literals

Question 16

What is the term for this Python Attribute:

=represents a litereal
=represents data (eg. cities = Guelph)

a) literals
b) variables
c) lists
d) dictionaries

Answer 16

b) variables

Question 17

What is the term for this Python Attribute:

=contains multiple variables (eg. cities, and has a list of multiple city names)

• starts at 0
• uses square bracket notation

a) literals
b) variables
c) lists
d) dictionaries

Answer 17

c) lists

Question 18

What is the term for this Python Attribute:

=has information more than just lists of names
- organize data using keys and values

eg. cities w/ their population

a) literals
b) variables
c) lists
d) dictionaries

Answer 18

d) dictionaries