UMGC ENMT307 Week 2 Assessment Latest 2021 July

ENMT307 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Week 2 Assessment  

Preview the data

Directions:  Read the questions and type your answers below each question.  It is recommended that you pencil in a note in the appropriate location in your Understanding GIS workbook as a reminder for questions that mention page number and step number.  Make sure your responses are clearly written with no spelling or grammatical errors.  Also, make sure your answers are given in a font color or altered font size to clearly distinguish your inputs for each set of questions.Be sure to save your file as Lesson2Assessment_lastname.docx (ex: Lesson2Assessment_Smith.docx).  Point values are in parentheses.

Lesson 2: Exercise 2a

You will beturning in your DataRequirementsTable.doc for grading at the end of Lesson 2.

Lesson 2: Exercise 2b

QUESTION 1:What is the Catalog pane used/good for?(5)

QUESTION 2:  What type of data or feature class do the icons below represent?  (5)

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QUESTION 3:  How do you access ArcGIS Online inside ArcGIS Pro?  (5)

QUESTION 4:  Copy and paste the Use Limitations from page 75, #4, below this question.  (5)

QUESTION 5:  What was the shape area number of the parcel youidentified on page 76, #9?  If your first pick was the same as the book, then click on another parcel and write the shape area here.(5)

QUESTION 6:  What is a stand-alone table?  Where is it added to inside the Contents pane?  (5)

QUESTION 7:  Why are the same features, such as cities, represented with different types of shapes?  (10)

QUESTION 8:Every shapefile has FID and Shape attributes.  What are these for?  (10)

QUESTION 9:On page 80, #7, what are the addresses of the two new parks from the NewParks.shp layer?  (5)

QUESTION 10:How are blocks, block groups, counties, tracts, and block centroids related?  Explain in detail.  (10)

Lesson 2: Exercise 2c

QUESTION 11:  What is metadata and what purpose does it serve?  Explain in detail.  (10)

QUESTION 12:On page 89, #10, what is the field description for MEDHINC_CY ?  (5)

QUESTION 13:Don’t forget to turn in your completed DataRequirementsTable.doc for grading.  Attach it as a separate file.  (20)