Untitled Flashcards Set

Absolute Location

Describes the location of a place based on a fixed point on earth.

Address

A designation of the location of a person's residence or workplace, consisting of numerical and text elements like street number and city.

Aesthetic

Term used to talk about beauty or art and people's appreciation of beautiful things.

Attribute

Nonspatial information about a geographic feature in GIS, usually stored in a table linked to the feature by a unique identifier.

Autonomous

Functioning independently without control by others.

Base Line Data

Known values that act as a basis for comparison for experimental data.

Brownfield

A property complicated by the presence of a hazardous substance or pollutant that may affect its expansion or redevelopment.

Canon

A general law, rule, principle, or criterion by which something is judged.

Commercial

Involving or relating to the buying and selling of goods.

Condensation

The process of water changing from vapor to liquid, losing energy as it cools.

Conversion Factor

Ratio used to convert one unit to an equivalent amount in a different unit of measurement.

Criteria

A means of judging, a standard, rule, or test by which something can be assessed.

Cross Contamination

The unintentional transfer of substances from one area or object to another.

Equitable

Equal and just treatment of all concerned.

Ethical Dilemma

A situation where a choice must be made between two or more ethically unacceptable options.

Evaporation

The process by which water turns into vapor when heated by the sun.

Evapotranspiration

The transfer of water from land to atmosphere via evaporation and plant transpiration.

Feature layer

A layer that references a set of feature data representing geographic entities.

Field

A column in a table that stores the values for a single attribute.

Filter

A GIS operation used to hide features in a map document or attribute table.

Geocoding

A GIS operation for converting street addresses into spatial data for mapping.

Geographical Features

Natural and artificial identifying features of the Earth.

Geospatial

Relating to information that identifies the location of features on the Earth's surface.

Green Infrastructure

Planning of systems to counteract the negative impacts of development and create sustainable communities.

High-Density Development

Residential and commercial development at a density higher than typically found in the existing community.

Impervious

Not allowing entrance or passage.

Infiltration

The process of water seeping through the ground.

Infrastructure

The basic physical structures and facilities needed for the operation of a society.

Itinerary

A planned route or journey.

Layer

The visual representation of a geographic dataset in a digital map environment.

Low-Density Development

A residential zone with open space and a small number of homes.

Mass Density

A measure of mass per volume.

Mathematical Model

A representation of a real-world situation using mathematical concepts.

Median

A measure of center in a data set, representing the middle value.

Network Logic

The collection of schedule activity dependencies in a project schedule network diagram.

Query

A request for information.

Regression

Statistical processes for estimating relationships among variables.

Relative Location

The position of a place based on its location with respect to others.

Residential

An area designed for people to live in, containing houses.

Risk

An uncertain event that can affect project objectives.

Runoff

Precipitation that does not infiltrate the soil.

Trade-Off

An exchange of one benefit for another regarded as more desirable.

Urban Sprawl

The spread of a city into surrounding areas without planning.

Urbanization

The process of population moving from rural areas to cities.

Utility

Services useful to the public, such as electricity, water, and gas.

Vaccine

A substance used to stimulate antibody production and provide immunity.

Watershed

An area of land that drains into a single larger body of water.

Orthographic Projection

A method of representing 3D objects on a 2D plane.

Precipitation

Water released from clouds as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.

Point

A geometric element defined by a pair of x,y coordinates.

Point Feature

A map feature that has neither length nor area.

Policy

A set of ideas or plans used as a basis for decision-making.

Polygon

A closed shape on a map defined by connected x,y coordinate pairs.

Polyline

A shape defined by one or more connected segments in GIS.

Population

All values collected during an observation or experiment.

Population Density

The number of people living in each unit area.

Pervious

Permitting the passage of fluids or substances.

Project Risk Management

Processes for planning, analyzing, and controlling risks in a project.

Quartiles

Values that divide a rank-ordered data set into four equal parts.