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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does de Blij call global warming a misnomer?

2. What is the name of the interglacial that we are currently in?

3. What did European countries fail to consider when they colonized Africa?

4. Which of the following revolutions occurred during the time period in which the nation-state was becoming popular?

5. What historical event may have given rise to the stories in many cultures of a Great Flood?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does de Blij feel that U.S. power is changing with regard to China and India?

2. What does de Blij mean when he says that geographers look at the world spatially?

3. How is measuring distances on a globe different from measuring distances on a map?

4. Compare and contrast the populations of Europe and of sub-Saharan Africa.

5. What kinds of unusual linkages does de Blij say that geographers make?

6. What caused the "year without a summer"?

7. What is the Exclusive Economic Zone?

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

9. How do mass extinctions on Earth usually occur?

10. How has the Moon's position in Earth's sky changed since Earth's early years?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does geography matter? Write an essay explaining how de Blij answers this question.

Essay Topic 2

Explain how Europe and the United States contributed to Africa's decline in the modern age.

Essay Topic 3

What lessons does de Blij think that we can learn from the U.S. war with Iraq?

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