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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do geographers analyze using the gravity model?
(a) The history of Earth.
(b) Plate tectonics.
(c) Interaction between cities.
(d) Current events.

2. Which of the following activities requires the skills of a geographer?
(a) Tracking outbreaks of disease and predicting where diseases will spread in the future.
(b) Studying the history and current events of a particular country.
(c) Traveling to a distant place and blogging about the trip in an online journal.
(d) Comparing the structures of government in two different cultures.

3. What does de Blij say that the Snowball Earth theory explains?
(a) It explains how Earth's oceans formed.
(b) It explains the extinction of the dinosaurs.
(c) It explains why glaciers form during Ice Ages.
(d) It explains Earth's first deep freeze.

4. What tool does de Blij say that no household should ever be without?
(a) A globe.
(b) A ruler.
(c) A computer.
(d) An atlas.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was 1816 called "the year without a summer"?

2. How is topography shown in United States Geological Survey maps?

3. How long has it been since Harvard University offered a geography class to its students?

4. What approach to foreign affairs is fostered by the decision not to teach geography in public schools?

5. Which of the following maps has the smallest scale?

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