Topic 2 Pre-Assessment

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A specific location with distinct characteristics is called

• an address
• a site
• a place
• a position

If you stood at the door of your school and looked out at the playground, you would be looking at

• a situation
• a landscape
• an identity
• a region

Which is true about people's perception of place?

• visiting a place can change people's perception of the place
• People do not have a perception of a place unless they have been there
• other's perception of a place impacts the meaning that place has for you
• the depictions of places in the media do not change how people perceive them

Which of these allowed the Harlem Renaissance to happen?

• improvements in agriculture
• the passage of time
• climate change
• human migration

Which is an example of a functional region?

• the Thirteen colonies
• the Great Plains
• a creek and the hills that it runs through
• a library and the surrounding neighborhood

A perceptual region is defined mainly by the

• geographical features of an area
• people's throughts and feelings about the area
• official political boundaries of an area
• work people do in an area

What is spatial interaction?

• the characteristics of a place, including its physical setting
• the location of a place or region in relation to another place or region
• the movement and flow of people, products, and ideas related to human activity
• the set of unifying physical characteristics that define a place or region

Which is a result of economic independence?

• the rise of globalization
• the creation of perceptual regions
• the decline of migration
• the creation of formal regions

"Distance affects connections between places. Generally, interaction decreases as distance increases. This relationship is called distance decay." Based on the quote above, which two regions would you predict to have the greatest amount of distance decay?

• North Dakota and South Dakota
• St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois
• Southwest Ohio and Northeast Ohio
• New York and California