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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long have people been making maps?
(a) At least 1,000 years.
(b) At least 500 years.
(c) At least 100 years.
(d) At least 5,000 years.

2. What problem has historically been an issue between Canada and the United States?
(a) Mining.
(b) Immigration.
(c) Acid rain.
(d) Fishing rights.

3. What phase of Earth's geologic history are we in today?
(a) The Pleistocene.
(b) The Archean.
(c) The Eocene.
(d) The Hadean.

4. What did scientists think was happening to the climate in the 1950s, when de Blij was in graduate school?
(a) Global cooling.
(b) Global warming.
(c) Global upheaval.
(d) No change in climate.

5. How long ago did the glaciers from the last Ice Age begin to recede?
(a) The glaciers began to recede 100 years ago.
(b) The glaciers began to recede 2 billion years ago.
(c) The glaciers began to recede 18,000 years ago.
(d) The glaciers began to recede 10 million years ago.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does a geostationary satellite do?

3. What three groups fought over China in the early 20th century?

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

5. How far south did North American glaciers reach during the last Ice Age?

(see the answer key)

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