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Which of the following is another term for a line of longitude?
Parallel
Small circle.
Latitude
Meridian is the answer.
A spheroid is an ellipsoid with a sphere-like form.
True/False: ANSWER True
Which of the following spheroids is presently considered the best model of the
earth for North America?
Clarke 1866
International 1924
Bessel 1841
ANSWER: GRS80
Various spheroids are employed around the world to account for local variations
in the shape of the earth.
True/False: ANSWER True
,Which lines on the graticule travel N-S, converge at the poles, and indicate the
angular distance E-W from the prime meridian?
Major axis
Lines of latitude
Long lines.
Parallels - Answer Lines of Long
The earth's spherical coordinates. Sys is an angular coordinate. sys.
True/False: ANSWER True
The distance between meridians has a constant value.
True/False: ANSWER False
After changing from DMS to DD, the point of origin for a Southern California
site was moved to China. What happened?
The calculations failed to account for axial precession.
It was the result of continental drift.
The coord for long needs to be negative.
The calculator must be in deg mode rather than dms - the long coordinate must
be negative.
Which GIS data format is best for capturing a geographic location?
42.944, -122.172
, 42 degrees, 16 minutes, and 23 seconds.
Broadway & Lexington
380 New York Street - ANSWER: 42.944, -122.172
What exactly do people mean when they say meta data is data about data?
Metadata differentiates between vector and raster data.
Metadata is data that describes the data.
Metadata refers to the data's data.
ANSWER: Metadata is data about data.
You're putting together a street dataset. You wish to limit the Types field to
local rods, highways, and exit ramps. What data behavior would you use?
Networking
Domains
Subtypes
Topology - Answer Domains
Which three assertions characterize the most common spatial data editing tasks?
Convert features to rasters.
Transform the coordinate system.
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