GEOG 1113 - 03. Place, Space, and Spatial Diffusion

High poverty rates in Vietnam coincide with:

closed forest cover

In 1598 domestic horses, an Old World species, were accidentally introduced into the American West by Spanish conquistadores invading the Upper Rio Grande valley of present-day New Mexico. Over the next 150 years, feral horse (Mustang) populations spread throughout the interior west of North America. What type of expansion diffusion did this involve?

contagious

Rap was first popular in New York, then Los Angeles, and later Dallas, and still later, Tulsa. This illustrates the process known as ________ diffusion.

hierarchical

_________ diffusion involves the ordered spread of a phenomenon such as a cultural trait, technological innovation, or disease outbreak, within a stratified system. Most often the stratified system directing this type of diffusion is an urban system of cities.

hierarchical diffusion

The diffusion of Walmart during the second half of the 20th Century involved a pattern that spread from rural to urban areas. This is an example of ____ diffusion.

reverse-hierarchical

(T/F) Hierarchical diffusion is completely random.

False

(T/F) The term spatial diffusion was first coined by geographer Edward Ullman in 1954.

False

(T/F) Distribution is the arrangement of phenomena on or near the Earth's surface

True

(T/F) Istanbul's growth as a major port stems from attributes of its site and situation along an important strait.

True

(T/F) The diffusion of H1N1 flu since April 2009 provides a good example of spatial diffusion.

True

By definition, a(n) _____ barrier completely stops the diffusion of something.

absorbing

The most common type of relocation diffusion is

migration

The most common type of barrier to cultural diffusion is the:

permeable

A location distinguished by specific physical and cultural characteristics is a

place

A few years before 1997 (the year the PRC took over), many Hong Kong Chinese migrated to Canada and moved their assets to Canadian banks. Most Hong Kong Chinese settled along the coast of British Columbia and in Toronto. This migration story illustrates the process of _____ diffusion.

relocation

The diffusion of the most conservative cultural traits - religion, language, kinship, etc. - usually involves _____ diffusion.

relocation

____ diffusion is ultimately the result of human migration.

relocation

_____ refers to the degree in which two or more phenomena share similar distributions

spatial association

The phenomenon in which local contagious diffusion originating in higher-order centers occurs simultaneously with traits primarily diffusing hierarchically is called:

the neighborhood effect