If a Geographer Wanted to Use a Geographic Information System

question 50

Multiple Choice

If a geographer wanted to use a geographic information system (GIS) to study soil contamination and determined that only the areas within 1.5 kilometers of a toxic waste dump needed to be considered and mapped, he/she would be most likely to choose which type of GIS function?

• A)buffering
• B)kriging
• C)area calculation
• D)point-pattern analysis

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