Whether it's inhaled, swallowed, or, more rarely, absorbed through the skin (just by touching a product that contains lead), lead can act as a poison. Exposure to high lead levels in a short period of time is called acute toxicity. Exposure to small amounts of lead over a long period of time is called chronic toxicity.
Â© 2016 Gwen Dewar, Ph.D., all rights reserved. Spatial skills predict a young personâs achievement in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. They are crucial for the mechanic, visual artist, architect, and surgeon. Yet traditional schooling does relatively little to foster the development of these abilities, and that's troubling.
It is the partnership of these two data types that enables GIS to be such an effective problem solving tool through spatial analysis. GIS is more than just software. People and methods are combined with geospatial software and tools, to enable spatial analysis, management large datasets, and the display of information in a map/graphical form.