Answer

1. Geography is the study of the natural features of the earth’s surface, including
topography, climate, soil, vegetation and man’s response to them.

2. Information System is any organized system for the collection, organization,

storage and communication of information.

3. Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computer system designed for

collecting, storing, manipulation, analyzing, managing, modelling, querying
and displaying all types of data in a spatial reference to solve the complex
problems of planning and management.

4. Geomatics is the study of the land and sea using surveys,mapping and
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to build a highly accurate digital
profile of our environment.

5. The following is NOT a benefit of using GIS in business applications?

- Yes.
6. road in a map can be represented by line is a vector data.

7. Scale in map means: it is represents the ratio of a distance on the map to the
actual distance in the real world.

8. discrete object: is a continuous surface represents phenomena in which each

location on the surface is a measure of the concentration level or its
relationship from a fixed point in space or from an emitting source.

9. To represent continuous phenomena (field) the better model is Raster.

10. Meridian is the line of longitude.

11. Parallel is the line of latitude.

12. UTM is Unified Threat Management.

13. The parameters of geographic coordinates are: latitude and longitude.

14. The parameters of Cartesian coordinates are: Northing and Easting.

15. Shapefile is a popular geospatial vector data format for GIS.

16. The file type of feature dataset is Vector data.

17. The oldest version of ArcGIS is ArcView 1.0.

18. Georeferenced is means to associate something with locations in physical

space.

19. Ground Control Point or GCPs, are marked points on the ground that
have a known geographic location.

20. The elevation in a map has shown us by contour line.

21. The ground distance between A and B is 2.5 km.

22. The compulsory and complete elements in a map layout are:

- Map Layout
- Scale Bar
- Scale Text
- North Arrow
- Legend
- Map Production…

23. The best type of legend that represent the population number or density
in different provinces is Unique value.

24. The best type of legend to represent the city rating is Unique symbol.

25. Metadata are the information in the data.

26. Geoprocessing is a framework and set of tools for processing geographic

and related data.

27. Explain the following word:

➢ Clip the operation to cut out a piece of one feature class using one or
more of the features in another feature class as a cookie cutter.
➢ Erase is one of the analysis tools used to perform overlay analysis on
feature classes. This tool creates a feature class from those features or
portions of features outside the erase feature class.
➢ Overlay creates a composite map by combining the geometry and
attributes of the input data sets.
➢ Intersect is an Intersect is an analytical operation that can be used to
select any part of a feature that intersects with one or more other
features.
➢ Union is a union is an analytical process in which the features from
two or more map layers are combined into a single, composite layer.
➢ Append is one of the Data Management tools for manipulating feature
classes. This tool merges multiple feature classes together to create a
single feature class.
➢ Spatial joint is transfer of attribution from source to destination layer
based on the spatial relation between the objects of two layers.
➢ Dissolve is one of the Data Management tools used for generalizing
features. This tool combines like features based on a specified attribute
or attributes.

Questions

Please answer the following questions:

What is geography?
What is the information system?
Definition of Geographic Information System (GIS)?
Definition of Geomatics?
Which of the following is NOT a benefit of using GIS in business
applications?
What can be represented a road in a map?
What does scale mean in a map?
What does it mean large scale maps?
What is the discrete object?
Which model is best for representing discrete objects?
Which model is better to represent continuous phenomena (field)?
What is a meridian?
What is a parallel?
What is UTM?
What are the parameters of geographic coordinates?
What are the parameters of Cartesian coordinates?
What is Shapefile?
What is the file type of feature dataset?
What is the oldest version of ArcGIS?
What is georeferenced?
What is Ground Control Point?
What can tell you the elevation in a map?
The map scale is 1/50 000. The map distance from point A to point B is 5
cm. What is the ground distance between A and B?
The compulsory and complete elements in a map layout are:
What is the best type of legend to represent the population number or
density in different provinces?
What is the best type of legend to represent the city rating?
What is metadata?
What is geoprocessing?
Please explain what is clip, erase, overlay, intersect, union, append, spatial
join, dissolve!