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Geographical data handling: SQA Advanced Higher Geography quiz quiz

18questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. How many marks is geographical data handling worth in the question paper?

  2. Which is an example of ordinal data?

  3. Which data type has categories with no order?

  4. Which sampling method divides a population into subgroups and samples each in proportion?

  5. Which graph best shows three components that sum to 100%?

  6. Which graph shows the relationship between two interval variables?

  7. What does a kite diagram show?

  8. Which map technique shades areas by the value of a variable such as density?

  9. Which map technique uses arrows whose width shows the volume of movement?

  10. Which is a measure of central tendency?

  11. What does the standard deviation measure?

  12. What does the coefficient of variation allow you to do?

  13. Which correlation test requires ranked (ordinal) data?

  14. What range do correlation coefficients take?

  15. What does chi-squared analysis test?

  16. What does a nearest neighbour index (Rn) of about 0 indicate?

  17. Why must significance be checked before concluding from a statistical test?

  18. What controls which statistical test is valid for a data set?