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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What issue has caused conflicts along the border between Germany and the Netherlands?
(a) Water rights.
(b) Civil rights.
(c) Mining rights.
(d) Human rights.

2. Why did life expectancy in Botswana fall from 60 to 39 between 1994 and 2004?
(a) Because of severe flooding and cholera.
(b) Because of drought and famine.
(c) Because of the AIDS epidemic.
(d) Because of poor sanitation and hygiene.

3. Which of the following countries adds nine or ten million people to the world's population every year?
(a) Saudi Arabia.
(b) The United States.
(c) China.
(d) Russia.

4. When did China first begin to feel the impact of the Little Ice Age?
(a) During the Ming Dynasty.
(b) During the Mongol Dynasty.
(c) During the fall of the Roman Empire.
(d) During the Han Empire.

5. What does de Blij think may eventually happen to the European Union?
(a) It may collapse into disorder and economic chaos.
(b) It will become a hub for terrorism and will become a troubled region.
(c) It will become overwhelmed by foreign debt and domestic taxes.
(d) It may become a superpower that challenges U.S. dominance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is one of the characteristics of a nation-state?

2. What human event coincided with the end of the Little Ice Age?

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

4. What other world does geography traditionally deal with, in addition to the human world?

5. What other university departments does de Blij feel should be resurrected, along with geography departments?

(see the answer key)

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