Quiz 1 Geography RATED A+

If there are acceptable costs of an exchange, then ______ conditions are met. - ANS transferability Transferability is a function of the ______, the ______, and the ______. - ANS 1) characteristics and value of the product 2) the distance, measured in time and money penalties, over which it must be moved 3) the ability of the commodity to bear the costs of movement __________ is contact between places; it means the movement of people, ideas, and commodities from place to place. - ANS spatial interaction True or false: Transferability is a constant condition that stays the same. - ANS ______ is the study of spatial variation, how and why things differ from place to place on the Earth, and how observable spatial patterns evolved through time. - ANS geography Geography is considered to have developed ______ other disciplines such as anthropology, demography, geology, ecology, and economics. - ANS before With regional geography's focus on understanding the physical and human characteristics of particular regions, it is said to be ________ - ANS areal oriented In terms of their geographical meaning, ______ implies areal extent in both an absolute and a relative sense, and ______ refers to the attributes and meanings we associate with a location. - ANS space place If our sense of place is unrealistic, it may reflect a ______ - ANS place stereotype Match the examples to the correct dimensionality that they usually represent as geographic features. water well highway forest oil deposit - ANS geographic features are both natural and cultural like buildings, cornfields, cities, and countries zero dimensional feature (points) 1 dim (lines) 2 dim (areas/polygons) 3 dim ( objects - ANS discrete entities that are designated to a space examples: roads and mountains, individual people fields - ANS continuous ly varying surfaces on Earth that completely covers the space of the landscape examples: human population, avg precip, bodies of water absolute location - ANS the exact location of a place using latitude and longitude relative location - ANS where a place is located in relation to its surrounding objects absolute direction - ANS based on global standards North, south, east, west when the sun is up and down relative direction - ANS culturally based and locationally variable direction despite reference to cardinal compass points eg. "Near and Far East" The process of dispersion of an idea or an item from a center of origin to more distant points with which it is directly or indirectly connected is called - ANS spatial diffusion the rate and extent is determined by - population density - means of communication - What term expresses the increasing interconnection of people and societies all over the world? - ANS globalization A measure of the number or quantity of a specific feature within a defined unit of area or simply in relation to the space in which it is found is called ______. - ANS density A region is a(n) ______. - ANS Earth area that displays significant elements of internal uniformity but also external difference from surrounding territories