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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does de Blij feel that Americans are unprepared to evaluate global warming?
(a) Because they do not pay attention to current events.
(b) Because they do not take classes in geography.
(c) Because they do not know enough about science.
(d) Because they do not understand geologic history.

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

3. When did the nation-state emerge in Europe?
(a) Between 1450 and 1550.
(b) Between 1250 and 1450.
(c) Between 1850 and 1950.
(d) Between 1650 and 1850.

4. Why did the volcano explosion in Sumatra affect Earth's climate?
(a) It caused a tsunami.
(b) It heated Earth's atmosphere.
(c) It shifted one of the plates in Earth's crust.
(d) It sent millions of tons of ash and debris into the atmosphere.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do geographers mean when they use the abbreviation "B.P."?

3. What event became known in China as the "Great Leap Forward"?

4. When President Ronald Reagan visited Brazil, where did he tell people he was happy to be?

5. What does the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea do?

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