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Question 1

When thinking about spatial interaction, the diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin defines what?

Answer 1

Distance decay

Question 2

In the modern world is distance decay severe?

Answer 2

No less because connection between places takes much less time

Question 3

how would geographers apply the term Space-time compression?

Answer 3

to describe the reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place

Question 4

A chain of communication that connects places is called a what

Answer 4

network

Question 5

What is uneven development?

Answer 5

The gap in economic condition between regions in the core and periphery that results from the globalization of the economy

Question 6

a place identified by its unique physical characteristics is called a

Answer 6

site

Question 7

Which is true?

1. every meridian is actually a circle rather than a line
2. every meridian is the same length and has the same beginning and end
3. every parallel begins and ends at the poles
4. every parallel is the same length

Answer 7

2. every meridian is the same length and has the same beginning and end, all meridians are lines of longitude and begin and end at the poles

Question 8

The International Date Line is measured approximately from

1. 0 degrees latitude
2. 0 degrees longitude
3. 90 degrees latitude
4. 180 degrees longitude

Answer 8

the International Date Line approximates the 180 degree line of longitude - it does not follow it exactly for mainly political reasons

Question 9

Diffusion of AIDS is an example of which type of diffusion?
non-infectious
hierarchical
relocation
stimulus

Answer 9

the answer is relocation diffusion which is the spread of an idea (or in this case a disease) through physical movement of people from one place to another

Question 10

Parallels converge at the north and south poles. true or false

Answer 10

Correct - this is false meridians or lines of longitude converge at the poles, parallels are circle

Question 11

true or false

Every two-dimensional map projection distorts the surface of earth in some way.

Answer 11

True the portrayal of the round (elliptical) earth on a flat map cannot be recreated exactly

Question 12

true or false

For each 15 degrees change in longitude, time changes by 1 hour.

Answer 12

this is a true statement, there are 24 standard lines of longitude each representing an hour and adding up to 24 hours

Question 13

Regions are found only where physical and economic characteristics are strongly related.
True
False

Answer 13

this is a false statement, it is just the opposite, regions are found where characteristics are distinctively unique

Question 14

There are several ways to indicate location - topony(name) , situation and _____.

Answer 14

site

Question 15

Geographers draw two types of lines (or arcs) on maps to indicate location. The lines (or arcs) drawn from the north and to south poles are know as ______.

Answer 15

the lines drawn between the poles are meridians or lines of longitude