Introduction to GIS

1.     Pieces of information that provide a description of features in GIS are _____.

• Attributes

• Vector data

• Locations

• Maps

What are the two general data formats used in GIS?

• Vector and raster

• Points and lines

• Features and attributes

• Digital and paper maps

GIS stands for

• Geological Information System

• Generic Information System

• Geographic Information System

• Geographic Information Sharing

GIS deals with which kind of data

• Numeric data

• Spatial data

• Binary data

• Complex data

What is GIS in the most encompassing sense?

• A software to make maps

• A system to collect data on the field and store in database

• System to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage and present all types og geographic data

• A system to edit and design maps for visualization

What is metadata?

• It is meteorological data

• It is contour data

• It is oceanic data

• It is data about data

Key components of spatial data quality include

• Positional accuracy

• Lineage and completeness

• Temporal accuracy

• Logical consistency

• All of the above

What distinguishes GIS from other types of information systems?

• It can provide visualization of data

• It can build, manage, and create databases

• It can perform spatial analysis

• It can perform statistical analysis

• All of the above

How are points, lines and polygons stored?

• As shapefiles

• as vector files

• As raster files

• All of the above

What are the three type groups of vector data?

• Points, lines and imagery

• Points, lines, polygons and imagery

• Points lines and polygons

• Points, polygons and imagery