What Do You Know About Geographic Information Systems?
Geographical Information Systems, shortened as GIS, is a system that performs some functions pertaining spatial and geographical data. Take this quiz to challenge yourself of GIS.
- 1.
Who was the originator of GIS?- A.
Roger Tomlinson
- B.
Orlando Ribeiro
- C.
Grigorios Konstantas
- D.
Alfred Weber
- 2.
Among the following, which is an underlying aspect of GIS?
- A.
Geographic Information site
- B.
Geographic Information science
- C.
Geographic Information subject
- D.
Geographic Information systematic
- 3.
Who is the present Father of GIS?
- A.
Alfred Weber
- B.
E. W. Gilbert
- C.
Roger Tomlinson
- D.
Orlando Ribeiro
- 4.
Which of the following is NOT a benefit of using GIS in business applications?
- A.
To increase efficiency
- B.
To increase communication
- C.
To improve decision making
- D.
To increase
- 5.
What is the leading company for GIS business applications?
- A.
MapInfo inc
- B.
Accugrade
- C.
ESRI
- D.
Goggle earth
- 6.
Aspects of a GIS system do NOT include...
- A.
Legal representation of a physical location
- B.
Cartography and remote sensing
- C.
Photogrammetry and geography
- D.
Land surveying and mathematics
- 7.
In GIS, what is metadata?
- A.
It is ‘ data about data
- B.
It is ‘meteorological data
- C.
It is ‘oceanic data’
- D.
It is ‘contour data’
- 8.
Which of the following is related to GIS?
- A.
Euclidean space
- B.
Ramanujan space
- C.
Pythagorian spacev
- D.
None of the above
- 9.
Which of these is the main GIS file format?
- A.
Vector
- B.
Document
- C.
Avra
- D.
System
- 10.
The GIS is designed to perform all these except...
- A.
Analyzing
- B.
Managing
- C.
Presenting
- D.
Editing
Questions: 5 | Attempts: 2922 | Last updated: Mar 22, 2022
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Sample QuestionWhich of the following is NOT a benefit of using GIS in business applications?
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