QUESTIONS AND
CORRECTLY WELL DEFINED ANSWERS LATEST
ALREADY GRADED A+ 2025 – 2026
Spatial scope - DETAILED ANSWER-the area operated on by the spatial analysis
Selection Operations - DETAILED ANSWER-identifying features that meet one or more of several
conditions or criteria
EX: on-screen query, Set algebra, Boolean algebra
Spatial Selection Operations - DETAILED ANSWER-Adjacency
Proximity
Indicator Variable
Containment
Adjacency - DETAILED ANSWER-identify features that "touch" each other
Proximity - DETAILED ANSWER-identify features within a certain distance
Indicator Variable - DETAILED ANSWER-used to record set membership
, Containment - DETAILED ANSWER-identify features that are contained within or surround each
other
Classification - DETAILED ANSWER-recoding or reclassification - Used to group attributes into
simpler classes
Manual vs. Automated Classification - DETAILED ANSWER-Manual takes longer but more
accurate
Automated is faster but can be less accurate
Dissolve - DETAILED ANSWER-Used to combine like features within a data layer
Proximity Functions/Analysis - DETAILED ANSWER-Involves measurement of distances - Most
powerful and common GIS analysis
Overlay Functions/Analysis - DETAILED ANSWER-Simpler in raster (may need to resample cell
sizes)
More complex in vector (more complicated mathematics)
Special Cases of Overlay - DETAILED ANSWER-clip, intersect, union
A Problem in Vector Overlay - DETAILED ANSWER-Slivers
Edge Matching: Similar to Slivers but in x, y direction
Raster Local Functions - DETAILED ANSWER-Mathematical