GIS EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is map? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A representation of an area of land or sea showing physical
features
What is cartography? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The art or science of making maps
What is GIS? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The automated acquisition, management, analysis and display of
spatial data
A tool of processing spatial data, it combines layers of info about a place, allows data integration
technology that manages, analysizes, and disseminates geographic knowledge
organized collection of computer hardware, software, geographic data, and personnel design to
efficiently capture, store, update, manipulate, analyze, and display all forms of geographically
referenced information
analysis of spatial data
5 examples of data that can be utilized in GIS - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Digital Line file: lines
Digital Elevation Model: rises
Digital Raster Graphic: ref map
Digital Ortho Quarter Quad
Landsat 7 Image (satellite data)
,Tabular data
How do cartography and GIS fit together? What are the differences? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅GIS is a
great complement for cartography.
GIS analyzes data, cart. just displays it.
What is teh difference between GIS and Cartography? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅GIS analyzes data but
cartography.
Charac and Purpose of Cognitive maps - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Mental representations of physical
locations (mental map)
May reveal what is important to that specific person, personality, culture.
Cartographic Maps - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Include topographic (Reference) and thematic maps. Maps
are normally cartographic by nature.
Examine the characteristics of a small area of the Earth in great detail.
Great detail, zoomed in.
Reference Maps - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Focus on geographic locations and features (forests, roads,
political boundaries)
Show where something is in space, thematic maps tell a story about that place
e.g. Topographic maps (USGS, 1879, primary civilian mapping agency in US). 1:34,000 = 7.5 minute maps
, Quantitative Maps - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Has info that tells you the magnitude of different things
(wide, fast, high, large)
Point (dot, proportional)
Line (flow)
Area (choropleth, isarithmic, cartograms, multivariate)
Can be multivariate
Qualitative Maps - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Has info on only WHERE different things are. e.g. rivers,
roads. doesn't tell you how many there are.
Point, line, polygon
Can be multivariate by adding hues, symbols
Can be multivariate
Thematic Maps - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Maps that tell stories, typically showing the degree of some
attribute of the movement of a geographic phenomenon.
Choropleth Maps - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Most widely used thematic mapping technique. Each
enumeration unit is given a specific saturation, texture or lightness depending on its magnitude
Adv = easy to understand, widely used
Dis = data classification implies even distribution, MAUP, ecological fallacy
What is map? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A representation of an area of land or sea showing physical
features
What is cartography? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The art or science of making maps
What is GIS? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The automated acquisition, management, analysis and display of
spatial data
A tool of processing spatial data, it combines layers of info about a place, allows data integration
technology that manages, analysizes, and disseminates geographic knowledge
organized collection of computer hardware, software, geographic data, and personnel design to
efficiently capture, store, update, manipulate, analyze, and display all forms of geographically
referenced information
analysis of spatial data
5 examples of data that can be utilized in GIS - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Digital Line file: lines
Digital Elevation Model: rises
Digital Raster Graphic: ref map
Digital Ortho Quarter Quad
Landsat 7 Image (satellite data)
,Tabular data
How do cartography and GIS fit together? What are the differences? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅GIS is a
great complement for cartography.
GIS analyzes data, cart. just displays it.
What is teh difference between GIS and Cartography? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅GIS analyzes data but
cartography.
Charac and Purpose of Cognitive maps - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Mental representations of physical
locations (mental map)
May reveal what is important to that specific person, personality, culture.
Cartographic Maps - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Include topographic (Reference) and thematic maps. Maps
are normally cartographic by nature.
Examine the characteristics of a small area of the Earth in great detail.
Great detail, zoomed in.
Reference Maps - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Focus on geographic locations and features (forests, roads,
political boundaries)
Show where something is in space, thematic maps tell a story about that place
e.g. Topographic maps (USGS, 1879, primary civilian mapping agency in US). 1:34,000 = 7.5 minute maps
, Quantitative Maps - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Has info that tells you the magnitude of different things
(wide, fast, high, large)
Point (dot, proportional)
Line (flow)
Area (choropleth, isarithmic, cartograms, multivariate)
Can be multivariate
Qualitative Maps - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Has info on only WHERE different things are. e.g. rivers,
roads. doesn't tell you how many there are.
Point, line, polygon
Can be multivariate by adding hues, symbols
Can be multivariate
Thematic Maps - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Maps that tell stories, typically showing the degree of some
attribute of the movement of a geographic phenomenon.
Choropleth Maps - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Most widely used thematic mapping technique. Each
enumeration unit is given a specific saturation, texture or lightness depending on its magnitude
Adv = easy to understand, widely used
Dis = data classification implies even distribution, MAUP, ecological fallacy
