Lab 2 - Chapter 4 and General assignment question

•Chapter 4

1. Name the feature classes you use in exercise 4a.

     Thumbnail(s)

2. Using the “Identify” tool, click on Australia and give the country population.

     17827520

3. Which dataset would you use to determine the depth of the ocean in exercise 4b?

     Seafloor raster data set [seafloor.lyr]

4. What file type is the particular file in number 2 (in other words, what’s the file extension)?

     .mbd

5. Describe what a Data Frame is.

     Data frame is small rectangles layer inside the virtual page.Vitrual page can have many or one data frame to express propose.

6. What is the focus of the second data frame?

     Patrice how to add more sets of data or show different view of the same data.

•General

1. Open ArcGIS from the Windows Start Menu under Programs. List the programs you see. (hint:

anything beginning with 'Arc')

2. What general tasks are ArcMap and ArcCatalog designed to perform?

ArcMap is the application for making maps and analyzing data.

ArcCatalog is an application for managing geographic data.

3. Locate the ArcToolbox and briefly describe it's general structure. Then locate the Toolbar menu

from the Customize menu (Customize --> Toolbar)

ArcToolbox is under “Geoprocessing” menu. It contains many tools for ArcMap such as Analysis, Conversion, Geocoding, Server and Spatial Analyst/Statistic...etc.

Toolbar menu

ArcToolBox

4. Find the Table of Contents in ArcMap. What purpose does each 'view' button serve?

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