Dunkin’ Donuts, KFC, McDonalds, Starbucks, Subway
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You will research the assigned food or product retailer. You will think geographically about the company’s spatial distribution, diffusion and cultural influences. Activity 1 and Activity 2 will be completed in the computer lab and outside of class as independent work.
Staples
Subway
McDonald’s
Starbucks
Foot Locker
Gap
Apple
Verizon
Marriott
AMC
Walmart
Dunkin Donuts
Jersey Mike’s
Wawa
5 Guys
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Activity 1
1. Google Map search the different scale sizes bulleted below and then “search nearby” for your assigned retailer. Label and print the maps and make sure you mark the retailer locations clearly. Include the approximate number of stores at each scale.
• Long Branch
• Monmouth County
• New Jersey
• United States
• World/Global- Zoom all the way out
• One additional country of your choice
This is a total of 6 maps!
2. How did the number of stores in each country change when the scale of the map changed? Be specific with estimated numbers and countries. Note trends and use geographic vocabulary.
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Activity 2
3. Explain the distribution of your assigned retailer use the right vocab.
• In Monmouth County ______________________________________________________
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• In the United States _______________________________________________________
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• In the World _____________________________________________________________
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• In one country of choice – country __________continent__________________________
Go back to Google map
4. Choose a city you are familiar with (New York, Philadelphia, Newark, Red Bank, etc.) which has your retail store.
• Determine the absolute location ______________________________________________
• Determine the relative location ______________________________________________
5. Choose a retail location on the continent of your choice (it should be an area which you are not familiar with)
• Determine the absolute location ______________________________________________
• Determine the relative location ______________________________________________
Activity 3
6. Compare your maps to your groups’ maps. What are the differences between retailers at the same scales?
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• What would account for the differences? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Put your set of maps in order of scale – small to large scale
7. What type of unique details do you see on the small scale map? ________________________
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8. What type of unique details do you see on the large scale map? ________________________
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9. How did the information change when the scale of the map changed? Site specific examples, think of patterns, trends, features, concentrations, diffusion, etc… ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Activity 4
10. In your group, List 3-5 reasons why, in your geographically informed opinion, a retailer chose the locations? _____________________________________________________________
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11. Has the diffusion of the retailer been relocation, contagious, hierarchical or stimulus? _______________ What evidence is there to support your conclusion? ____________________
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12. Compare the distribution of other group member’s retailer locations.
Retailer _________________: Pattern of location: ____________________________________ What factor may have influenced the distribution of the locations?: _______________________
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Retailer _________________: Pattern of location: ____________________________________ What factor may have influenced the distribution of the locations?: _______________________
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Retailer _________________: Pattern of location: ____________________________________ What factor may have influenced the distribution of the locations?: _______________________
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Retailer _________________: Pattern of location: ____________________________________ What factor may have influenced the distribution of the locations?: _______________________
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Relative Location Word Bank
Close to
Across from
Near
In the area of
Intersection
Rural
Urban
Distribution
Word Bank
Inland Clustered Concentration
Coastal Dispersed Concentration
Rural Dry/Arid temperature
Urban Moderate temperature
Polar temperature Tropical temperature
Density
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