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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long ago did the most recent global warming trend start?
(a) Around 1,000 years ago.
(b) Around 50 years ago.
(c) Around 18,000 years ago.
(d) Around 100 years ago.

2. At what point do scientists predict that Earth's population will level off and stop increasing?
(a) When it reaches ten billion.
(b) When it reaches eight billion.
(c) When it reaches one billion.
(d) When it reaches 100 billion.

3. What had to happen before Earth's land masses could form?
(a) Earth's crust had to begin to cool into rock.
(b) The Moon had to begin orbiting Earth.
(c) The oceans had to form.
(d) Life had to begin to evolve.

4. What kind of a map did Vladimir Koppen devise?
(a) A map that showed lines of latitude and longitude.
(b) A map that showed political boundaries.
(c) A map that showed climate regions.
(d) A map that showed the movements of glaciers.

5. If Earth's population keeps growing at the present rate, how high will it be by the year 2035?
(a) Eight billion.
(b) Twenty billion.
(c) One million.
(d) One billion.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do geographers look at the world, according to de Blij?

2. Why did life expectancy in Botswana fall from 60 to 39 between 1994 and 2004?

3. What two inventions have done the most to increase life expectancy?

4. Which of the following empires thrived during the Medieval Optimum?

5. Which of the following is one of the characteristics of a nation-state?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kinds of tools do geographers need to know how to use?

2. What does de Blij fear might happen before Earth reaches its natural population limit?

3. What is divided by national and international borders besides what you can see on a two-dimensional map?

4. Why is it a problem for Europe's population to decline?

5. Explain why Earth's continents drift. What theory explains this process?

6. How does de Blij say that stories of the Great Flood may have started?

7. What was Europe like during the coldest part of the Little Ice Age?

8. What is the difference between a large scale map and a small scale map?

9. How did political maps change during the age of colonialism?

10. Why does de Blij say that people might produce maps that are misleading?

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