A regional bakery finds that orders per 1,000 residents fall steadily with each town farther from the bakery. What pattern do the records show?

People will drive 40 miles to a children's hospital but rarely more than 2 miles to a gas station. Which service has the flatter distance-decay curve, and why?

A library finds that most card signups come from the blocks closest to it. Which idea says that near things are more related than distant things?

Office workers used to walk six blocks to a popular food truck. A new food truck parks two blocks from their towers, and most of them now eat there instead. What is the new truck?

Which model predicts that interaction between two cities grows with their populations and shrinks with the distance between them?

A clinic's appointment records show fewer visits from neighborhoods that require longer trips, even after insurance coverage is the same. What concept fits?

A farm region grows extra grain but has no factories, and a nearby city builds tractors but grows little food. Trade between them grows. Which condition drives this flow?

Gravel is heavy and cheap, so builders rarely buy it from quarries more than a short drive away. Which idea explains this?

As more friends keep in touch by free video calls, contact with friends who moved far away drops off less with distance. What is happening to distance decay in their contact?

An express bus cuts the campus-to-downtown trip from 50 minutes to 18 minutes, and student trips rise. What was reduced?

A tunnel replaces a slow mountain pass. Freight hours fall, and shipments between the valley and the coast increase. Which factor decreased?

A new border checkpoint adds three hours to every truck trip between two neighboring cities, and trade between them falls. What happened?

A paved road replaces a rutted track to a clinic, and visits from nearby villages rise. Which idea explains the change?

Moving a ton of grain one mile by river barge costs much less than moving it one mile by truck. What does this show about friction of distance?

How does time-space compression relate to friction of distance?

Town A is 60 miles away by freeway, a one-hour drive. Town B is 25 miles away on a mountain road, a two-hour drive. Residents shop in Town A more often. Which measure best explains their choice?

A design team on three continents now meets by video instantly. The same review once required mailed reports for weeks. What does this illustrate?

Overnight air cargo lets seafood reach inland restaurants by morning, replacing a route that took several days by truck. Which process is illustrated?

Which geographer is known for the term time-space compression, which describes how faster transport and communication make the world seem smaller?

A mobile banking app lets workers send remittances instantly instead of waiting weeks for letters and couriers. What process does this show?

Fiber-optic links let city hospitals share scans in seconds, but some rural clinics still lack fast internet. What does this show about time-space compression?

The transcontinental railroad, finished in 1869, cut a coast-to-coast trip across the US from months by wagon to about a week. Which process does this show?

Video calls and fast jets have made far places seem closer. Which of these does time-space compression NOT change?

A graph plots weekly trips against miles from a downtown clinic. Curve A drops to near zero by 3 miles. Curve B declines slowly through 20 miles. What does it show?

On a graph of delivery orders by miles from the store, a furniture store's line stays high to 15 miles, while a pizza shop's line falls sharply after 2 miles. What best explains the pizza shop's line?

A graph compares online and walk-in tutoring by miles from campus. The online curve is nearly flat, while the walk-in curve falls quickly after campus. What best explains the flat online curve?

A figure compares museum visits by ring around a city. Curve R declines gently, while Curve S drops sharply in the first ring. Which change would most likely make Curve S decline more gently?

Fewer outer-suburb residents attend a downtown festival than nearby residents. After express rail opens, far-suburb attendance rises. Which pair of ideas is combined?

A study finds fewer shoppers from remote neighborhoods, except where a closer mall captures them first. A new ring road later raises far-neighborhood visits. Which sequence fits?

A coastal factory buys parts from an inland supplier because each needs what the other provides. Storms close the only pass, then faster rail shortens delivery. Which trio fits?