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which of the following describes a primate city?

a. it’s economically and politically interconnected to other cities in the world

b. it’s disproportionately large in relation to the next largest cities in that country

c. it’s surrounded by walls like a fortress

d. it’s linked by colonial administrators to an imperial power

e. it’s primarily concerned with its role as a religious center

b. it’s disproportionately large in relation to the next largest cities in that country

which of the following best explains why new york city has more specialized stores than do smaller urban places in the united states?

a. it’s status as a primate city

b. the rank-size rule

c. the gravity model

d. central place theory

e. the burgess concentric zone model

d. central place theory

according to christaller’s central place model, which of the following would most likely have the smallest range?

a. a university

b. an international airport

c. a grocery store

d. a professional football stadium

e. a symphony orchestra hall

c. a grocery store

which of the following is a general theory in geography that can be used to quantify and predict the interaction between two cities based on population sizes, distance between places, the number of migrants moving from one place to the other, or the flow of trade goods between two locations?

a. central place theory

b. world system theory

c. concentric zone model

d. multiple nuclei model

e. gravity model

e. gravity model

according to the rank-size rule, which of the following is typically true of higher-order services, such as hospitals with a large number of medical specialties?

a. they are located in suburbs

b. they are located in small towns

c. they have smaller ranges and thresholds

d. they have larger ranges and thresholds

e. they have larger ranges and smaller thresholds

d. they have larger ranges and thresholds

which of the following defines chicago’s position in relation to the infrastructure of the united states?

a. site

b. situation

c. absolute location

d. vernacular region

e. transition zone

b. situation

which feature would most distort the predictions of the gravity model of flow and interaction among urban areas?

a. st peter’s cathedral in new york city

b. the mississippi river shore in st louis, missouri

c. lake michigan in chicago, illinois

d. raleigh, the capital city of north carolina

e. disney world in orlando, florida

e. disney world in orlando, florida