A system of hardware, software, data, people, organizations and institutional arrangements for collecting, storing, analyzing and disseminating information about areas of the earth.
What is GIS?
100
A closed, connected set of lines that define an area.
What is Polygon?
100
A systematically acquisition of data about a population
What is Census?
100
One or more structured sets of persistent data, managed and stored as a unit and generally associated with software to update and query the data.
What is Database?
100
A database or file structure used primarily to store, query, and manipulate spatial data in ArcGIS plataform.
What is geodatabase?
200
The foundation of all scientific reasoning in geography and GIS.
What is Tobler's First Law of geography?
200
Discrete elements to represent geometry of real world entities.
What is Vector Data Model?
200
Information from every person in every household in the U.S.
What is Decennial Census?
200
A categorization of spatial objects based on their properties.
What is classification?
200
Is a table with shape field containing point, line or polygons geometries for geographic features.
What is feature class?
300
The ratio of the distance on the map to the corresponding distance in the real world
What is Map Scale?
300
A regular “grid cell” approach to defining space.
What is Raster Data Models?
300
It regularly gathers information previously contained only in the long form of the decennial census in a sample of 3 million addresses every year.
What is the American Community Survey?
300
Data classified by comparative value.
What is ordinal?
300
Is a collection of related feature classes that share a common coordinate system.
What is a feature dataset?
400
The visual representation of a geographic dataset in any digital map environment. E.g. a map window of a GIS
What is a layer?
400
A software implementation where we have objects similar to the vector model but the entities interact with each other with spatial dimensions.
What is Object Data Model?
400
Nest within all other types of geographic areas.
What is Census Blocks?
400
A collection of software tools for the entry, organization,
storage, and output of data.
What is What is Database Management System - DBMS?
400
Is a subset of features in a feature class or object in a table that share the same attributes.
What is a subtype?
500
A pair or triplet of numbers used to define a position in space.
What is coordinates?
500
Shape-invariant spatial properties of vector features such as adjacency, contiguity, and connectedness, often recorded in a set of related tables.
What is Topology?
500
A monthly survey of about 50,000 households.
What is Current Population Survey?
500
A widely adopted set of commands used to manipulate relational data. E.g. perform queries
What is Structured Query Language?
500
An item in the geodatabase that stores information about a relationship that requires the primary and foreign key to be of the same data type.