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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do scientists measure the movement of North America each year?
(a) In miles.
(b) In yards.
(c) In feet.
(d) In inches.

2. What other world does geography traditionally deal with, in addition to the human world?
(a) The natural world.
(b) The philosophical world.
(c) The cultural world.
(d) The astronomical world.

3. How did Dr. John Snow use maps to save lives in London during the 19th century?
(a) He used them to teach firefighters to find their way around London.
(b) He used them to plot the locations of attacks during a crime wave.
(c) He used them to plot new cases of cholera.
(d) He used them to decide where to put streetlights.

4. Why has the United States been so slow to convert maps to the metric system?
(a) The Ordinance of 1785 required land to be laid out in township squares measured in feet.
(b) Geographers prefer not to use the metric system in maps until it is used for other things too.
(c) U.S. geographers are not accustomed to the metric system and prefer not to use it.
(d) The metric system is not as efficient for mapmaking as the English system of measurement.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What were climatic conditions like during the Postglacial Optimum?

2. How long ago did the glaciers from the last Ice Age begin to recede?

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

4. How long ago did the most recent global warming trend start?

5. Why does de Blij feel that Americans have an obligation to be well informed?

(see the answer key)

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