ISS 310: Final Exam Review || All Questions Answered
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You are having lunch with a friend at a local restaurant and want to provide him with the
restaurant's relative location, in a way that will allow him to locate the restaurant without the use
of maps or other tools. Which of the following descriptions would best accomplish this?
a. the exact distance in feet from your friend's grandma's house
b. the street address of the restaurant, including the city, state, and zip code
c. the latitude and longitude (geographic coordinates) of the restaurant
d. the direction and distance from the nearby hotel where your friend works correct answers d.
the direction and distance from the nearby hotel where your friend works
In a geographic information system, you can combine data such as stream locations from a
digitized paper map and population data from the Census Bureau. When connected in a
geographic information system, these individual data sets are called:
layers.
attributes.
records.
features. correct answers ...
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The distribution and pattern of the most dominant tree species across Michigan would best be
displayed and visualized on a ________________ map.
thematic
topographic
reference
mental correct answers thematic
Which of the following provides the best example of a relative location?
Prasanna's house is due east of Hotel Himalaya and south of Prabhat Cinema.
Kolkata, located on the River Hooghly, is the eighth largest urban agglomeration.
Prasanna's house is on Balai Dutta Street not far from the University of Calcutta.
Prasanna lives on the west side of Kolkata, West Bengal, India. correct answers Prasanna's house
is due east of Hotel Himalaya and south of Prabhat Cinema.
If I was interested in traveling across country (that is, from coast to coast) by car and I could only
bring one map, I would likely use a ______________ road map that displays a
_________________ area.
small scale; large
,small scale; small
large scale; large
large scale; small correct answers small scale; large
Which of the following statements about the geographic coordinate system is false?
a. Latitude values range from 0 degrees at the equator to 90 degrees near the poles.
b. The prime meridian is an arbitrarily chosen line that runs through Greenwich, England.
c. Latitude values are the distance traveled on the ground between a location and the equator.
d. The latitude and longitude coordinates of a location are unique for every place on earth.
correct answers c. Latitude values are the distance traveled on the ground between a location and
the equator.
You are trying to monitor the extent of a drought across the Great Plains so that its potential
impact on agricultural crops can be predicted and United States emergency funds can be
distributed to affected farmers at the end of the growing season.
Which of the following geospatial technologies would be the most useful for you to use to
compare the spatial extent of the vegetation impacted by the drought at various times over the
growing season?
volunteered geographic information
remotely sensed imagery
cartography
a global positioning system correct answers remotely sensed imagery
You are having lunch with a friend at a local restaurant and want to provide him with the
restaurant's absolute location, in a way that will allow him to locate the restaurant using a map or
global positioning system. Which of the following descriptions would best accomplish this?
a. the street address of the restaurant, including the city, state, and zip code
b. the latitude and longitude for the city where the restaurant is located
c. the direction and distance from the nearby hotel where your friend works
d. the distance in feet from your friend's grandma's house or a place of business correct answers
a. the street address of the restaurant, including the city, state, and zip code
You are working for a marketing research company and they have asked you to analyze and
track the average household expenditure on tissues from major pharmacies during the month of
January. You are provided with the total number of boxes of tissues purchased and dollars spent
by tissue brand in January. The data you are given is considered geographic information.
True. You should be able to determine the location of pharmacies based on this information.
False. You were not given locations, therefore, it is not geographic information.
,False. You were given geographic data, not geographic information. correct answers False. You
were not given locations, therefore, it is not geographic information.
If you wanted to record the exact location of a monastery located on the side of a mountain at an
elevation high above the Earth's surface using a global positioning system, how many satellites
would be needed?
5
2
4
3 correct answers 4
Farmer John is in his tractor, preparing to apply fertilizer to his soybean crop. He uses tools in
his tractor to review soil moisture maps, pinpoint locations, and view satellite images of his field
that show areas in need of additional fertilizer. Farmer John is practicing a technique known
specifically as:
intensive farming.
fertilizer mapping.
precision farming.
biodynamic farming. correct answers precision farming.
Meridians of longitude measure distances east and west of an arbitrary line in Greenwich,
England, called the Prime Meridian. This is an example of which theme of geography? [Select
the best answer.]
place
region
movement
location correct answers location
Which of the following would be considered a reference map?
a map of world population density
a weather map showing average monthly precipitation
a map of global soil regions
a topographic map of a local campground correct answers a topographic map of a local
campground
In geocaching, a player uses a hand-held GPS (global positioning systems) to locate "treasure"
called a geocache. To begin, the player enters the latitude and longitude coordinates of the
geocache they want to hunt for. Because it is connected to a location, a geocache is considered:
, geographic information.
an absolute location.
feature data.
cartographic data. correct answers geographic information.
Geography is fundamentally characterized by its concern with:
phenomena in a spatial context.
patterns of spatial development.
the human condition across space.
humans and the environment. correct answers phenomena in a spatial context.
If I wanted to locate a seafood restaurant near Baltimore's Inner Harbor, I would likely use a
______________ map that displays a ______________ area.
small scale; small
large scale; large
large scale; small
small scale; large correct answers large scale; small
You are using a geographic information system to create a reference map of farms located in
mid-Michigan. To plot the location of farms in space, you need to obtain the ________________
of each one.
None of the above. Reference maps do not show tangible features.
absolute or relative location
relative location
absolute location correct answers absolute location
You are working in the field as a home health care professional and you would like to collect the
location of each of your clients' homes as you visit them, so that you can more easily locate them
for future visits. Which of the following tools would be most helpful?
remote sensing
a geographic information system
volunteered geographic information
a global positioning system correct answers a global positioning system
In 2009, Hydro Quebec, a Canadian government-owned utility company, purchased New
Brunswick Power, in eastern Canada, to gain greater access into energy markets on the United
States' east coast. New Brunswick Power already had transmission lines to transport electricity
and natural gas from New Brunswick Power into Maine.This statement is an example of which
theme of geography?(Note: Select the best answer.)
