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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does de Blij say that it is problematic for urban areas to continue to expand?
(a) Because urban areas have higher crime rates.
(b) Because urban areas have high infant mortality rates.
(c) Because urban landscapes change local geography.
(d) Because urban populations get their food from rural areas.

4. Which of the following is one of the characteristics of a nation-state?
(a) A people who speak the same language but live in different countries.
(b) A territory that is governed by several allied governments.
(c) A people who wander from place to place as nomads.
(d) A territory that exists within boundaries that can be drawn on a map.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following locations seems like a likely target for terrorists, according to de Blij?

2. What population problem is facing European countries?

3. Which of the following countries was never colonized by Europe?

4. What war does de Blij say could have been better handled if U.S. leaders had had a better grasp of geography?

5. Why did the U.S. support the anti-Soviet rebels in Afghanistan?

(see the answer key)

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