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GIS Exam 1 Questions & Answers 2024 GIS answers... - ANSWER-location (where/what), condition (what's its status), trends (what has changed), patterns (spatial patterns), modeling & simulation (what if) Gerrymandering - ANSWER-Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power. GIS - ANSWER-Geographic Information System What GIS Software will you be using this semester? - ANSWER-ArcGIS Pro "The societal push to adopt GIS has been [compl...

GIS Exam Questions & Answers 2024 Why can getting points from a GPS into ArcGIS be problematic? - ANSWER-Poor connection - hardware and software issues; different companies/products/versions Difficult to find the specified datum/projection What is remote sensing? Give examples. - ANSWER-Collecting information from a distance; ex. photographs or radar/LiDAR. Typically satellite or air plane. Offer great detail over a continuous surface How is remote sensing imagery stored? - ANSWER-Gr...

GIS Exam 1 Review Questions & Answers 2024 What is GISS? Specify what each letter represents and what it means - ANSWER-Geographic - relates to a specific place on or in relation to the Earth's surface Information - is data to which some value or interpretation has been added. In GI, the information relates to measurements, maps, images, sounds etc. of the Earth's surface GI science = a fundamental field of study which examines the representation, storage, analysis, and visualiz...

GIS Exam Questions & Answers 2024 *Cartography: Thematic Maps* - ANSWER-... Thematic mapping - ANSWER--a form of visual analysis -used to show spatial distribution or pattern of a single variable -Common Dot -Choropleth -Cartogram (value by area) -Proportional symbol -Flow map -Isarithmic map What is a common dot map and what kinds of patterns can it depict? - ANSWER--used to indicate patterns of incidence and density -dots used as shading symbols -effective for depicting ...

Advanced GIS Exam 1 Questions & Answers 2024 Empiricism - ANSWER--Small choices that an individual has to make during a spatial process. ex which parameter to use during a certain task, using integers vs bytes vs float vs text data types -results have to be repeatable, which shows validity -results are repeatable with empiricism -GIS is empirical Data and Information - ANSWER--Data is NOT information -data must be manipulated to become information -data must be collected and analy...

GIS Exam 3 Questions & Answers 2024 description of reality - ANSWER-what is a model? dynamic - ANSWER-a spatio/temporal model is ________. static ("GIS models, what we have been doing") - ANSWER-a cartagraphic model is _______. descriptive, prescriptive - ANSWER-a _________ model describes the existing conditions; a _______ model predicts what the conditions should be. deterministic, stochastic - ANSWER-a _________ model assumes variables to have unique values; a _______ model...

Advanced GIS Exam 1 UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers The coordinate system is a property of the geodatabase, so all feature classes and feature datasets within the geodatabase must share the same coordinate system ToF - Correct Answer- F You have two feature classes: Parcels and Roads. If you want to use a geodatabase topology to help protect spatial relationships between them, you must store them in a feature dataset in the geodatabase. torf - Correct Answer- t

GIS EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH CERTIFIED SOLUTIONS What is GIS? Definition must involve three elements: (1) GIS is a computer system, (2) GIS uses spatially referenced or geographical data, (3) GIS carries out various management and analysis tasks on these data A geographic information system is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyse, manage, and present spatial or geographic data Why GIS can be difficult to define? Difficult to define because any definition of GIS will ...

Why can getting points from a GPS into ArcGIS be problematic? - correct answer Poor connection - hardware and software issues; different companies/products/versions Difficult to find the specified datum/projection What is remote sensing? Give examples. - correct answer Collecting information from a distance; ex. photographs or radar/LiDAR. Typically satellite or air plane. Offer great detail over a continuous surface How is remote sensing imagery stored? - correct answer Great detai...

GIS EXAM 1 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2024 geospatial science - ANSWER-deals with the structure, manipulation, analysis, and display of spatial data spatial data - ANSWER-data which models the attributes of space 4 aspects of geospatial science - ANSWER-cartographic principles (maps), global positioning systems (GPS), geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing (aerial photos and satellite imaging) cartographic principles - ANSWER-orientation to maps, scale and resolution, map ty...