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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Georgetown University decide to do in response to the geographic illiteracy of incoming students?
(a) It required all students to take four years of geography.
(b) It required all students to pass a geography test in order to graduate from Georgetown.
(c) It required all students to pass a geography test as part of the admissions process.
(d) It required all students to take a class called Map of the Modern World.

2. How do geographers look at the world, according to de Blij?
(a) Spatially.
(b) Chronologically.
(c) Structurally.
(d) Temporally.

3. When did the coldest part of the Little Ice Age occur?
(a) Between 1610 and 1650.
(b) Between 1675 and 1735.
(c) Between 1750 and 1800.
(d) Between 1580 and 1610.

4. Why does de Blij call global warming a misnomer?
(a) Because warming will probably be regional, not global.
(b) Because global warming occurs throughout Earth's history.
(c) Because Earth has been steadily cooling off since the Hadean period.
(d) Because the globe will probably cool down, not warm up.

5. How many mass extinctions have occurred during Earth's history?
(a) None.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Hundreds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following activities requires the skills of a geographer?

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

3. What caused the second Agricultural Revolution?

4. How did the Little Ice Age affect Europe?

5. Why has the United States been so slow to convert maps to the metric system?

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