Question 5

(Multiple Choice)

Refer to the figure.
Refer to the figure.   A graduate student interested in using a habitat map of North America finds that it is too large of a file for his school's Geographic Information System (GIS) computers to handle.  -To reduce the file size, the graduate student changes the pixel size of the file from 30 x 30 m (Panel 1) to 1000 x 1000 m (Panel 3). This student has successfully altered the _______ but in the process has lost _______. A) extent; detail B) grain; detail C) scale; accuracy D) range; precision A graduate student interested in using a habitat map of North America finds that it is too large of a file for his school's Geographic Information System (GIS) computers to handle.
-To reduce the file size, the graduate student changes the pixel size of the file from 30 x 30 m (Panel 1) to 1000 x 1000 m (Panel 3). This student has successfully altered the _______ but in the process has lost _______.


A) extent; detail
B) grain; detail
C) scale; accuracy
D) range; precision

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