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Every named model in the course: who made it, what it claims, and what it predicts.
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A model arranges agricultural land uses in concentric belts around one market, with perishable and costly-to-ship goods nearest the town. Which theorist is credited with it?
A factory-location model weighs transport costs, labor costs, and agglomeration economies to find the least-cost site. Which theorist developed it?
A theory explains a hierarchy of settlements that provide services to hexagonal market areas based on threshold and range. Whose theory is this?
A model modifies central place ideas by focusing on firms choosing market areas and locations that maximize profit. Which theorist is associated with it?
In Hotelling's beach model, two competing vendors end up side by side at the middle. Where would they stand to give beachgoers the shortest average walk?
A model of a North American city shows five rings spreading outward from the central business district. Which urban theorist proposed it?
A model describes urban land uses growing outward from the center in wedges along transportation corridors. Which theorist proposed it?
A city model has several separate activity centers instead of one dominant downtown. Which scholars proposed it?
A model of Latin American cities includes a CBD, a commercial spine, an elite residential sector, and zones of declining housing quality. Who developed it?
A model divides U.S. urban growth into epochs named for transport technologies such as sail-wagon, iron horse, and auto-air-amenity. Who created it?
A set of migration laws says most migrants move short distances and that migration often occurs in steps toward larger cities. Who proposed them?
A theory warns that population can grow faster than food supply unless checks limit growth. Which thinker is credited with it?
A development model says countries pass through traditional society, preconditions, takeoff, drive to maturity, and high mass consumption. Who proposed it?
A theory divides the global economy into core, semi-periphery, and periphery regions linked by unequal exchange. Who proposed it?
In Mackinder's heartland theory, ruling one region is the key to commanding the Heartland. Which region is it?
What does Spykman's rimland theory argue?
What did Ratzel's organic state theory claim?
In Hartshorne's functional view of the state, what keeps a country politically integrated?
What claim does Tobler's first law of geography make?
What does Sauer's cultural landscape approach claim about places?
What does Zelinsky's migration transition model claim?
What does the demographic transition model track through development?
What does the epidemiological transition model describe?
The graph holds settlement size constant and varies distance. What does the gravity model add to this distance effect?

What does the rank-size rule claim?
What does the primate city rule describe?
What does bid-rent theory claim?
What does distance decay state?
A country has a largest city of 1,200,000 people and follows the rank-size rule. What population is predicted for the fourth largest city?
City A has 2 million people and is 100 miles away. City B has 500,000 people and is 25 miles away. If distance is squared, which has stronger gravity interaction with your town?
In von Thunen's model, which land use best fits the innermost belt around the market shown in the figure?

In Weber's model, the inputs shown are much heavier than the final product. Which candidate plant site best fits a weight-losing industry?

In Hotelling's model, two coffee carts on a long sidewalk end up side by side in the middle. Why does neither cart move back toward an end?
In the central place figure, a high-order service has a large range and threshold. Where should it most likely locate?

If population keeps rising while food production grows much more slowly, what would Malthus's theory predict without checks?
The age pyramid has a broad base and few older people. In the demographic transition model, which pattern most likely produces rapid growth?

A country has low infant mortality, long life expectancy, and most deaths from heart disease and cancer. Which model best explains this pattern?
A country moves from early industrialization into a service economy, and migration shifts from rural-to-urban toward suburban and interregional moves. Which model fits?
A country builds factories, investment rises sharply, and manufacturing begins sustained growth after traditional agriculture. Which Rostow stage is this?
A peripheral country exports raw materials while core countries control high-profit manufacturing and finance. Which theory predicts this relationship?
A land power controls much of the Eurasian interior. Which geopolitical theory would see that control as a major strategic advantage?
A sea power seeks alliances around Eurasia's coastal belt to contain an interior rival. Which theory best predicts that strategy?
Which model does the diagram represent?

Which urban model does the diagram represent?

Which urban model does the diagram represent?

Which urban model does the diagram represent?

Which city model does the diagram represent?

Which city model does the diagram represent?

Which city model does the diagram represent?

Which city model does the diagram represent?

Which central place principle does the diagram show?

Which central place principle does the diagram show?

Which model does the diagram represent?

Use the graph. Which model is built on these transport eras?

Use the population pyramid. Which model stage does it most closely indicate?

Which concept does the graph represent?

The demographic transition model and epidemiological transition model can both describe the same country. What separates their focus?
Rostow's model and Wallerstein's theory can both describe a country's development. What is the key difference?
Mackinder and Spykman both wrote geopolitical theories about Eurasia. What distinguishes their strategic focus?
Ratzel's organic theory and Hartshorne's functional theory can both analyze a state. What distinguishes them?
Burgess's concentric zone model and Hoyt's sector model both describe North American urban land use. What separates their geometry?
Hoyt's sector model and Harris-Ullman's multiple nuclei model can both explain urban patterns. What distinguishes them?
The Griffin-Ford and Sub-Saharan African city models both describe cities outside the U.S. urban-model tradition. What separates them?
Von Thunen's model and bid-rent theory both use distance from a center. What is the main difference?
Weber's industrial location model and Hotelling's model both explain business location. What separates them?
Christaller and Losch both use market areas in location theory. What distinguishes their models?
The gravity model and distance decay both address spatial interaction. What distinguishes the gravity model?
The rank-size rule and primate city rule both describe an urban hierarchy. What separates them?
Malthusian theory and the demographic transition model both describe population change. What is the main difference?
Zelinsky's migration transition and Ravenstein's laws both explain migration. What distinguishes them?
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