Exam 1: Major Geographic Concepts

In considering spatial interactions between places, which of the following is a salient characteristic?

Geographers call how phenomena are arranged in space

The line maps of travel times across the U.S.during two time periods show that

Though we often talk about the 'South', speak of 'southern hospitality' and mention that people have southern accents

Geographers often look at processes, meaning how patterns became the way they are.If processes have multivariate explanations, then:

An individual's activity space around their home can logically be seen as

Which of the following is true regarding how geographers interpret space?

Though the map of country music stations shows patterns using dots for individual stations, one can surmise from this map that a country music region might be located mainly in

The concept of distance decay is best described in which scenario?

A site is the immediate environment of a place while situation deals with

The difference between absolute and relative location might be:

In the 2008 election map, coastal areas tend to

To what maximum extent is latitude measured?

To say a pattern is random is to say

The map of Afghanistan and Pakistan best correlates which two themes?

Since all longitude lines are essentially the same, going from pole to pole, we might say the selection of one to be Prime Meridian is

For this map we might say the pattern observed is

Covariation, as seen in the two maps, is described as

Place is different from space in that

In considering movement of commuters in central city and metropolitan suburbs within the figure, which has the highest percentage of type?