Products of a GIS: Maps and Other Information - Introducing Geographic Information Systems with ArcGIS - page 224

Exercise 3-8

Checking, Updating, and Organizing Your Fast Facts File

The Fast Facts File that you are developing should contain references to items in the following checklist.
The checklist represents the abilities to use the software you should have upon completing Chapter 3.
Important Note: This checklist is on the DVD that accompanies the topic. It is available in Microsoft Word
format. Rather than typing or writing by hand the text that follows, you can copy and paste it into your Fast
Facts File from the DVD file.

❏ The Layout View (contrasted with the Data View) is

❏ A map template is

❏ The file extension of a map template is

❏ The name of the map template that is the basis for a blank document is

❏ To get a variety of map templates

❏ A major toolbar used to produce a map is

❏ The map templates that contain data are located

❏ Ways of changing from Data View to Layout View are

❏ To determine the coordinate system of data in the data frame

❏ The types of coordinates available in the Data View are

❏ The types of coordinates available in the Layout View are

❏ Zoom controls in the Data View and the Layout View

❏ To rotate the map display

❏ Elements of the map that may be added are

❏ To rotate the north arrow

❏ Care has to be taken saving a map created from a template with data because

❏ A data frame is

❏ To make a new data frame

❏ To make a data frame active

❏ Two ways to change a data frame name are

❏ The difference between the active data frame and the selected data frame is

❏ Care must be taken when adding data to a data frame because

❏ The projected coordinate system could be found under Properties through the T/C under this table: