This map element serves as a look-up table for symbol choices on the map.
What is a legend/key?
100
SDE
What is Spatial Data Engine?
100
This tool creates a new shapefile that shows an area of inclusion at a set distance from an object.
What is Buffer tool?
100
This product is the most common output from a GIS.
What is a map?
200
This feature in a geodatabase allows for coded or a range of predefined values.
What are Domains?
200
This color should be used sparingly on a map, as it is considered to be the weakest color and is hard to detect.
What is yellow?
200
GISP
What is Geographic Information Systems Professional?
200
This tool takes all input feature classes and merges them together, creating a new output layer with the features split at their computing intersection.
What is Union tool?
200
This is the art and science of map making.
What is cartography?
300
Developing this ahead of time could save you time in the future
What is Geodatabase Design?
300
This type of file does not store any GIS data, rather, it saves symbology choices and relates it to a file that stores GIS data.
What is a layer file?
300
RDBMS
What is Relational Database Managament System?
300
This tool aggregates features based on a specific attribute. The output is a new shapefile.
What is Dissolve tool?
300
An extremely small distance used to resolve inexact intersection locations due to the limited arithmetic precision of computers.
What is fuzzy tolerance?
400
The home location for the spatial content of your map
What is the Default geodatabase?
400
For a typical vector symbol, these two parts of the symbol can be assigned colors separately.
What is the fill and the outline?
400
TIGER
What is Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing?
400
Determines the distance from each feature in the input features to the closest feature, within the search radius.
What is Near?
400
This type of scale shows a small geographic area.
What is a large scale?
500
A way to model infrastructures found in the real world, such as Water distribution, electrical lines, gas pipelines, telephone services, and water flow in a stream are all examples of this.
What is Geometric Network?
500
For a common point symbol, these are the three most commonly changed symbol properties.
What are color, size, outline?
500
FGDC-CSDGM
What is Federal Geographic Data Committee - Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata?
500
Features or portions of features in the input and update features that do not overlap will be written to the output feature class.
What is Symmetrical Difference?
500
This mathematical model (having two dimensions) serves as a basis for mapping the Earth.
What is an ellipsoid? or What is a coordinate system?