1. Supply the "best response" as defined by the authority that submitted the question. Most response options have been arranged in alphabetical order.
2. After a
question and the possible answers are read aloud, you have ten seconds.
3. Hold up the card with your team answer (facing you) or hold up a lifeline
card.
4. When told, turn your card around.
5. If your answer is correct, you must also give your team "cheer" to get credit.
1. A map projection is like a:
A. squashed cockroach
B. deflated balloon.
C. cracked egg
D. flattened orange peel
E. an exploded cow
2. On a map with a plane projection with the plane parallel to the equator and tangent to the North Pole, which of the following is true?
A. meridians
converge at the pole
B. parallels are straight lines
C. the distance between parallels increases with latitude
D. all great circles may be plotted as straight lines
3. David Mark and Max Egenhofer have stated that "ontology is a critical emerging theme in geographic information science." Which of the following statements comes closest to defining "ontology"?
A. "Dr. Jekyll is Mr. Hyde" - Robert Louis Stevenson
B. "I think, therefore I am" - Rene Descartes
C. "It depends on what you mean by the word 'is'." - Bill Clinton
D. "To be or not to be, that is the question" - Hamlet, William Shakespeare
4. A property boundary running to the center of a stream will not move to the new location of the center of the stream when the stream changes course suddenly by the natural process of:
A. accretion
B. avulsion
C. digging a new stream channel with a backhoe
D. reliction
E. riparian assent
5. Which of the following is not a layer of the atmosphere?
A. Exosphere
B. Mesosphere
C. Ozosphere
D. Thermosphere
E. Troposphere
6. The top of which mountain is furthest from the center of the earth?
A. Mount Chimbrazo in the Andes
B. Mount Everest in the Himalayas
C. Vinson Massif in Antarctica
D. Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa
E. Mauna Kea in the Hawaiian Islands
7. A GIS display shows U.S. census tract population figures overlaid with the census tract number, rendering both numbers indiscernible. Why?
A. They were digitized at different scales.
B. The TIGER file had incorrect data.
C. They use the same XY-coordinate for display purposes.
D. More than one of the above.
E. None of the above.
8. Ian McHarg is well-known for the use of map overlays to assess and characterize landscape. What lesser known landscape architect preceded McHarg, by almost 60 years, by developing 363 data maps for the entire US and layering them to produce a land use plan?
A. Gertrude Jekyl
B. Owen Manning
C. Roberto Burle Marx
D. Frederick Law Olmstead
E. Carl Steinitz
9. Which of the following explains why federally generated digital map data in the USA are available at minimal cost to the GIS user?
A. The U.S. has a national freedom of information law that allows citizens broad general access to the public records of government.
B. Federal agencies are not allowed typically to impose copyright in their public records.
C. The U.S. imposes affirmative obligations on federal agencies to actively disseminate their information as set forth by the provisions of OMB Circular A-130.
D. The provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) encourage use of information technologies by agencies for providing public access.
E. all of the above
10. An aerial photograph is taken from an altitude of 2400 feet using a camera with a focal length of 6 inches. What is the scale on the negative?
A. 1 inch = 400 feet
B. 1 inch = 500 feet
C. 1 inch = 1200 feet
D. 1 inch = 4800 feet
11. Which of the following is NOT a spatial analysis function?
A. buffering
B. polygon overlay
C. choroplethic mapping
D. automated mapping
E. None of the above
12. Who is attributed as writing the following statement in "Big Book 2" - "Much rubbish has been talked about the special value of GIS. Even more rubbish has been heard about the essential contributions of academic research and the role of government in GIS. These two groups have made almost no contribution to the evolution of GIS to date nor will they greatly influence its future."
A. Earl Epstein
B. Joe Lobley
C. Stan Openshaw
D. John Pickles
E. Barry Wellar