QGIS Quiz_1

What does the acronym "GIS" stands for?

• Geodetic Information System

• Geographic Information System

• Geographic Institution System

The term "geographic" came from the Greek word "γεωγραφία" (geographia), which literally translates to _________

• earth description

• world topography

• earth bender

According to Rhind (1989), this refers to a system of hardware, software, and procedures designed to support the capture, management, manipulation, analysis, modeling, and display of spatially referenced data for solving complex planning and management problems.

• Geologic system

• Geographic Information System

• Geodesy

What are the complete components of GIS?

• Hardware, Software, Malware, Tupperware, Unaware

• Hardware, Software, People, Data, and Application

• Hardware, Software, Internet, Data, and Application

It is a component of GIS which provides the functions and tools needed to store, analyze, and display geographic information.

• Software

• Hardware

• Freeware

_________ depicts real world features as geometric primitives (points, lines, polygons)

• Vector data

• Raster Data

• Metadata

Which of the following is NOT an example of a raster data?

• Scanned Topographic Map

• Satellite Images

• Road shapefiles

This refers to an abstraction of reality for analyzing, storing and communicating info about the locations, attributes, and interrelationship of physical and such phenomena that distributed over the earth’s surface

• Photo

• Map

• Virtual Data

_________ is the term used to describe the summary information of a set of data or “data about data"

• Geodata

• Metadata

• Inside Data

It is a map element defined as a reference system made of straight lines intersecting one another at right angles.

• Grid

• Scale

• Legend