Example Final Examination Questions GEOG183 Winter Quarter 2015

Answers to these short answer questions should be one or two paragraphs, and no more. I have given one questions per lecture, but will expect you to answer four out of six on the final.

1. What are the capabilities and characteristics of the two programs GIMP and Inkscape?

2. How do humans see color?

3. What is the difference between thematic cartography and the rest of cartography?

4. Give three examples of early information graphics that have become commonly accepted mapping methods today.

5. Explain the difference between a choropleth map and a bivariate choropleth map.

6. Explain Stevens’ levels of measurement/data as they apply to maps.

7. How are each of the principal means for the exact specification of color different?

8. Gives five examples of simple rules for text placement of labels on maps.

9. List some principles of map design. Which are most important?

10. Why is production, reproduction and dissemination of maps different when it comes to the Internet?

11. Discuss why the Landscan database is a daymetric map.

12. Discuss some of the issues of design that come into play on flow maps.

13. Give three examples of pioneering cartographic animations.

14. Define visual analytics, and how it relates to geovisualization, information visualization, data exploration and cartography.

15. Give examples of the types of cartographic uncertainty recognized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

16. What are your three favorite web mapping sites and why?

17. What are the differences between immersive virtual reality and augmented reality?

18. What are some of the topics that cartographers are current doing research on?