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Flashcards by Natalia Cobos, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Natalia Cobos
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| With the dawn of the Jet Age, international airline travel increased rapidly after 1950, and much of this early growth in jet travel was between Europe and North America. Which of the following best describes the spatial pattern suggested by the table? The volume of trade between Europe and North America increased. A. The size of aircraft traveling between Europe and North America decreased. B. The linear distance between Europe and North America decreased. C. The absolute distance between Europe and North America increased. D. The relative distance between Europe and North America decreased. | D. The relative distance between Europe and North America decreased |
| For centuries, sugar crystals were made from the evaporated juice of sugarcane, a plant grown only in tropical and subtropical climates. In the 1800s, industrial methods were developed to manufacture crystalline sugar from sugar beets. This allowed for large amounts of sugar to be produced in colder, temperate climate zones. Which of the following geographic concepts best explains the ability of humans to use technology to overcome the limitations of climate and modify the landscape? a. Environmental determinism b. Possibilism c. Cultural relativism d. Contagious diffusion e. Political ecology | b. Possibilism |
| The concept that the distribution of one phenomenon is related to the location of other phenomena is a. geographic analysis b.spatial analysis c. spatial association d. spatial distribution e. regional association | c. spatial association |
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