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Quiz #3 (Geography 207, January 26, 1999)

(http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/207/99/quiz3.html)

Select 5 (five) from the following 8 items for brief answers (identifications, definitions and/or interpretations) [1 point each + 1 Bonus pt]. Please write legibly. If you answer more than 5 questions, please identify those answers which you want to count first + foremost!

(1) Who was Walter Christaller?

(2) What does a Location Quotient of "2" signify?

(3) What are "diseconomies of agglomeration"?

(4) What do we mean when we suggest that a region's "terms of trade" have improved?

(5) List the three types of independent variables which Ed Ullman has suggested as the "Bases for Spatial Interaction":

(6) List the three types of (what we called in class) "space- differentiating forces" (i.e. independent variables "explaining" location patterns)?

(7) Briefly explain how the non-linearity of a (total) transport-cost function may affect a location outcome.

(8) Identify a major point or message you discovered in your readings (which?) for this week:

BONUS: Answer both question, if you wish. However, only one answer (or max. 1 point) will count:
A. What is Boeing's present total employment in the Puget Sound region: (from Auburn to Everett):

B. The U.S. monthly "trade deficit" hit a peak in November 1998: How high was it?