Chapter 7

In contemporary North American society, an individual's activity space is primarily affected by their

• A. stage in life, mobility, and opportunity.

• B. inome, sex, and ethnicity.

• C. politics, religion, and nationality.

• D. health, education, and employment.

2. Beyond this point, the frequency of trips decreases rapidly.

• A. distance decay

• B. activity space

• C. critical distance

• D. territoriality

3. The most effective and usual means of accumulating information affecting spatial interaction is

• A. library research.

• B. face-to-face contact.

• C. national magazines.

• D. travel books.

4. The concept of territoriality refers to

• A. topophilia.

• B. activity space.

• C. emotional attachment and defense of home ground.

• D. the perception of opportunities and attractiveness.

5. Hierarchical diffusion of an innovation

• A. is effectively halted by physical barriers.

• B. involves the relocation of individuals.

• C. takes place within organizations or systems of cities.

• D. is effective only in highly authoritarian countries.

6. Among the reasons for migrating, push factors

• A. draw migrants to specific destinations.

• B. reflect assessments of action space attraction.

• C. affect international migration but not domestic relocation.

• D. encourage relocation away from original residence areas.

7. As incomes rise, mobility tends to

• A. decline.

• B. rise.

• C. stay about the same.

• D. drop off sharply.

8. Maps of residential preferences created by people from different parts of Canada shared

• A. a strong preference for Florida.

• B. almost nothing in common.

• C. a strong preference for their home region, wherever it happened to be.

• D. an abrupt drop-off at the U.S.-Canada border.

9. A diffusion process that follows an S-shape curve indicates that the innovation

• A. first spread slowly, then more rapidly until saturation occurred.

• B. first had few adopters, then underwent an explosive pattern of growth.

• C. was first adopted by people in large cities, then by those in lower-order centers.

• D. was adopted in numbers corresponding to the population density.

10. The concept of activity space is useful for better understanding that each human

• A. has a territory with which he/she is most familiar.

• B. is confined to a region within which he/she interacts with others.

• C. has an exact schedule or routine that he/she carries out within a specified region.

• D. is busy doing those things that he/she must in order to live happily.