Which of the following statements best describes the concept of place?
New Orleans is a vibrant mix of culture and the home of jazz, cajun food, and joy.
New York, situated on the East Coast of the United States, has a humid continental climate.
Paris is located near a river, making the city accessible.
People settled in New York due to the natural harbor location.
Canada sits North of the United States
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Which of the following is not an example of a flow?
Migration
Trade
Culture
Resources
Diffusion
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Linear, centralized, random, and grid, refer to which spatial concept?
Network
Flow
Space
Pattern
Place
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The idea that connections between two places decrease as they get further from each other is known as what?
Distance decay
Absolute location
Spatial concepts
Space vs Place
Time-space compression
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The image above refers to which description of a spatial concept from the following?
The way that geographical ideas and concepts are connected and how they are spread across different aspects of space.
Connections between places decrease as they get further away from each other.
The idea that distance decreases between places, as they become more interconnected through transport, communication and ideas.
The connections between space, environment and history, and people’s relationships to those places.
The way that travel time reduces between different places.
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The concept of time-space compression was developed by who?
David Harvey
Karl Marx
Gillian Rose
Johann Heinrich von Thunan
Halford Mackinder
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Which example best illustrates relative location?
The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500, USA
40.6892° N, 74.0445° W
The West Coast of the United States
Fifth Avenue, New York.
The 5th floor
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Which of the following best describes friction of distance?
The names of places.
The exact location of something, using longitude and latitude coordinates.
As transport, communications and transfer of ideas increase, the world feels like it’s getting smaller.
The concept of journey time and the increased physical, temporal and economic costs related to it.
As things move further away from each other, they become less connected
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Which of the following is not an example of a spatial association?
The Equator and Tropical Rainforests
Malaria distribution and mosquito distribution
Diet type and regional environment
High crime in a lower-income area
Migration from pull factors
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Edward Relph is known for coining which spatial concept?
Sense of Place
Time-Space Compression
Time Space Convergence
Distance decay
Diffusion
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‘Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things’.
Waldo Tobler, The First Law of Geography
Which spatial concept does the quote above relate to?
Distance decay
Time space compression
Relative location
Pattern
Diffusion
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You receive some information regarding the location where you are meeting a friend. They provide you with the relative location. Which of the following is the information you’d likely receive?
The coordinates
The floor and room number
The building across the street from the church.
The address
Descriptive longitude and latitude
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Which of the following is a good example of a grid pattern?
Houses along a railroad track
City blocks
Scattered farmhouses
A 17th-century European village
Houses along a river
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