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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of location must be given in degrees, minutes, and seconds of longitude and latitude?
(a) Prime meridian location.
(b) USGS location.
(c) Relative location.
(d) Absolute location.

2. When does de Blij say that geography began to decline in the United States?
(a) When people began to watch television instead of reading books for entertainment.
(b) When professional educators decided to combine history, government, and geography into social studies.
(c) When political boundaries began to change so fast that it was hard to keep maps up-to-date.
(d) When Americans became less willing to travel after 9/11.

3. Who formulated a grid that is still used to make map projections of the world?
(a) Battista Agnese.
(b) Ferdinand Magellan.
(c) Captain Cook.
(d) Gerardus Mercator.

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

5. What technological development revolutionized cartography?
(a) The invention of the printing press.
(b) The invention of the compass.
(c) The invention of the ruler.
(d) The invention of the airplane.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is a compass rose more useful in the United States than in Europe?

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

4. About what percentage of American students have studied geography in school?

5. Why does de Blij feel that American students need to study geography?

(see the answer key)

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