Chapter 1 Review

A ratio of the number of items within a defined unit of area measures

• dispersion
• direction
• pattern
• density

Which of the following best describes the SITE of Manhattan

• A regional transportation hub for the northeastern United States
• A midway point along the urban corridor stretching from Boston to Washington, DC 
• An island bordered by the Hudson and East Rivers
• An important center for international trade and commerce

Spatial coordinates of latitude and longitude express

• absolute location
• relative location
• relative direction
• absolute direction

Which of the following concepts refers to the spatial arrangement of items of features within a given area? 

• Distribution
• Direction
• Acccessibility
• Scale

A subjective a image of an area informed by individual perceptions and experiences in that area is known as

• thematic map
• reference map
• mental map
• contour map

The principal of distance decay describes

• a positive correlation between distance and degree of relation
• a neutral correlation between distance and degree of relation
• a negative correlation between distance and degree of relation
• no correlation between distance and degree of relation 

The ability to travel and communicate over greater distances in shorter amounts of time, due to technological innovations such as the airplane, automobile, telephone, and Internet, represents the idea of 

• time-space compresssion
• stimulus diffusion
• friction of distance 
• relocation diffusion 

During the process of mapmaking, in which three-dimensional surface of the earth is projected onto a flat, two-dimensional surface, all of the following attributes can become distorted EXCEPT

• shape
• area
• distance
• relative location

The idea that spatial interaction declines as distance increases is known as 

• time-space compression
• the gravity model
• migration transition
• distance decay

Land parcels in the American Midwest tend to be rectilinear because 

• the federal survey system adopted in the late eighteenth century imposed a geometric pattern on  the landscape
• Native American settlement patterns were rectangular
• Spanish colonists laid out settlements in rigid geometric patterns
• English-speaking settlers replicated the landscape patterns of England