Introduction to GIS Mapping Coursera Quiz Answers

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Introduction to GIS Mapping Week 01 Quiz Answers

Quiz 2: Week 1 Quiz

Q1. What does a GIS do with geospatial data? (there is more than one correct answer)

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Captures

Stores

Queries

Analyzes

Explains

Q2. Which of the following are examples of geospatial data?

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Longitude and latitude

Area code of a phone number

Street address

Q3. The first GIS was created to help with the land inventory of which country?

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Canada

Q4. Which of the following are components of a GIS? (there is more than one correct answer)

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Hardware

Software

Geospatial data

Q5. ArcGIS Online is available for free

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False

Introduction to GIS Mapping Week 02 Quiz Answers

Quiz 1: Week 2 Quiz

Q1. When new geographic features become visible as you zoom in on a web map, this is referred to as:

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geographic reveal

Q2.When working with ArcGIS Desktop, you will generally want to create this type of “container” for the feature classes you will be working with:

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File geodatabase

Q3. A file geodatabase can contain which of the following: (there is more than one correct answer)

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Shapefiles

Raster datasets

Feature datasets

Feature classes

Q4. A map document (.mxd) file contains all of the following:

what data to display

where the data are located

how to display the data (including layout and symbology)

a copy of the GIS data used to create the map

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True

Q5. If the actual distance between two points on the ground is 1 km, what is the distance between these same two points on a map that has a scale of 1:100,000?

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10 cm

Q6. What is the length of one side of a web map tile?

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256 pixels

Q7. In ArcMap, specifying the minimum and maximum map scales at which a map layer can be displayed is referred to as:

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Scale range

Q8. ArcGIS Online allows you to set an exact map scale.

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False

Q9. The style of the way geographic features are displayed on a map (for example, colour or line thickness) is referred to as the:

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Symbology

Q10. Map scale is a ratio of:

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Ground distance to map distance

Introduction to GIS Mapping Week 03 Quiz Answers

Quiz 1: Week 3 Quiz

Q1. Put simply, a GIS is like linking a __ to a map.

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database

Q2. In an attribute table, each vertical column is referred to as a:

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field

Q3. You will generally want to create this type of “container” for the feature classes you will be working with:

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file geodatabase

Q4. A file geodatabase can contain which of the following: (there is more than one correct answer)

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feature classes

raster datasets

raster datasets

Q5. A data model is:

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a way of organizing map data

Q6. For the same spatial area, a raster file with a spatial resolution of 30 m has a __ data volume than does a raster file with a spatial resolution of 15 m.

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4x smaller

Q7. A map document (.mxd) file contains all of the following:

what data to display

where the data is located

how to display the data (including layout, symbology, etc.)

a copy of the map data

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True

Introduction to GIS Mapping Week 04 Quiz Answers

Quiz 1: Week 4 Quiz

Q1. Geodetic latitude refers to which of the following:

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the angle between the parallel on which a point sits and the center of the Earth

Q2. “Geoid height” refers to which of the following:

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the distance between the geoid and the reference ellipsoid

Q3. Which of the following lists the approximate coordinates for A, B, C, and D correctly?

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B: 51, -108

C: -27, 129

D: 13° N, 15° E

Q4. Which of the following is an ellipsoid?

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Clark 1866

Q5. A geographic coordinate system includes which of the following?

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projection

datum

Introduction to GIS Mapping Week 05 Quiz Answers

Quiz 1: Week 5 Quiz

Q1. True of false: a tangent case projection will always have two standard lines

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false

Q2. In which part of the map will the scale factor be less than 1?

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C

Q3. Where on the reference globe will there be the most distortion?

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at the standard lines

at the Equator

there is no distortion on the reference globe

Q4. Indicate which route from New York to London is the longest:

A:

B:

C or D (see labels in the image below)

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B is the longest path

Q5. Consider a World map that includes a Tissot’s Indicatrix, and that and in the image of a Tissot circle below are local longitudinal and latitudinal scale factors, respectively.

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the projection does not preserve shape
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