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Quiz: Geography Matters

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1. Which of the following definitions is valid for the term "spatial data" as it is used in
this course?

Pieces of information collected from outer space

Data that has an associated street address
Pieces of information about locations

Correct! This is the best definition.

Erroneous data
A representation, usually on a flat surface, of features in an area of the
earth

2. The term "layer," as it is used in mapping or GIS software, refers to a

representation of a particular theme on the earth's surface.

True

Correct! A layer might represent where traffic accidents occur, or which

areas of the country are experiencing rain.

False

3. Which of the following activities is relevant to the concept of raster data?

A child walks from home to school, to a friend's house, and then back
home.
An artist creates a mosaic, using square tiles of uniform size but different
colors, to depict a landscape scene.

Correct! Each tile is located at a specific location on the mosaic, and each
tile includes an attribute value: the color.

A baker adds a cup of flour, a half-cup of sugar, and a teaspoon of baking

powder to a bowl to bake a cake.
An author includes an index of key words and names in their book.
An analyst plots a pie graph to depict sales data from each department of
a store.

4. Which of the following items are examples of attribute data? (Choose four.)

Latitude and longitude coordinates of trees

Density of population by county

Correct! Population density is an attribute of an area.

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Predominant land use type by grid cell

Correct! Land use is an attribute of each grid cell.

Disease rate per census tract

Correct! Disease rate is an attribute of each census tract.

Volume of goods passing through a port

Correct! Volume of goods is an attribute associated with the port's location.

5. Which of the following definitions is valid for the term "scale" as it is used in spatial
analysis?

The amount of information stored on a map

The size of a representation of the earth relative to the earth's actual size
on a map

Correct! For example, a small-scale world map that fits on your computer
screen has roughly 1:100,000,000 scale—the representation is one-
millionth the size of the earth. A 1:1 scale map of the world would be very
large scale—as big as the world itself.

The shape of symbols on a map

The colors used to illustrate the heights of mountains on a map
The process of superimposing layers of geographic data that cover the
same area to study the relationships between them

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