WEEK 3 GIS QUIZ|CARTOGRAPHY: SCIENCE/ART QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS 2025

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WEEK 3 GIS QUIZ|CARTOGRAPHY:
SCIENCE/ART QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS 2025
Week 3 GIS Quiz
1. What is a Geographic Information System?
a. A satellite guidance system for navigation of military ships
b. A computer system that can detect multispectral data.
c. A computer system capable of assembling, storing, manipulating, and displaying
geographically referenced information.
d. A satellite time-ranging positioning system used for locational mapping
2. The two types of spatial data in a geographic information system are vector data
and descriptive data
True False
3. The three types of spatial objects used to describe positional attributes are points,
lines and polygraphs.
True False
4. Raster data consists of grid cells with values
True False
5. Topology is the spatial relationship among positional features
True False
6. The six fundamental components of a Geographic Information System are capture,
store, edit, analysis, display and output
True False
7. Geoprocessing is a geographic information system set of analitical tools that edits
tabular data
True False Used for analysis to create new spatial data from existing
8. A Geographic Information System provides tools to display mapping data and
allows the user to visually analyze geographic relationships
True False
9. The two main goals of mapping are problem solving and decision making
True False
10. Computer cartography makes geographic knowledge available to the broad
community of map users.

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True False