The eraser tool and the background it produces?

1. Why does the eraser sometimes erase with white vs. the checkered background?
2. Does the checkerboard mean that the background will be fully transparent?
3. How do you switch between checkerboard and white backgrounds for the eraser?
Thanks in advance.

Erasing on a layer will produce transparency. Erasing on a flattened image will produce white (or the background color)

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