Are You Geospatial Quiz

Credits to: Spatial Thinking with a Difference: An Unorthodox Treatise on the Mind of the Geologist, by Sarah Andrews.

 

 
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1) Images help you more than text in getting new ideas or understanding.

You could be geospatial!

2) If driving in a car to some place you’ve never been, you can figure out directions from a map, associate the map with objects outside, and assume the navigator’s job.

You could be geospatial!

3) If let loose with fancy car navigation equipment instead of paper maps, you’d be a lot happier (although you might take some side trips to explore).

You could be geospatial!

4) If you’re always the one who knows which way is north and your relationship to large objects such as mountain ranges, oceans, or the rising and setting sun.

You could be geospatial!

5) If you like to observe patterns, both in things you can see directly as well as repeating activities and behaviors.

You could be geospatial!

6) If you tend to spice up the scientific method with your own brand of intuition, by throwing your conscious mind out of gear and absorbing what’s around you. 

You could be geospatial!

7) If you are a natural expert at grappling with ambiguity, apt to notice irregularities and uncertainties, and feel comfortable with information that is difficult to quantify.

You could be geospatial!

8) If you often find not one possible answer to a given question, but many. 

You could be geospatial!

9) If you crave being outside, need to get out into the simplicity of field work to unwind so you can get the big picture of what’s lastingly important click into place.

You probably are geospatial!

10) If not only can you visualize three-dimensional images with your eyes closed, you can also receive incomplete data in random order and arrive at a rational solution to a problem involving four and more dimensions (the three dimensions of space plus time, and several processes or objects moving through time). 

You almost certainly are geospatial!