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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What kind of map does not distort reality?
(a) An equal area projection.
(b) A globe.
(c) A conical projection.
(d) A cynlindrical projection.

5. What had to happen before Earth's land masses could form?
(a) Earth's crust had to begin to cool into rock.
(b) The oceans had to form.
(c) The Moon had to begin orbiting Earth.
(d) Life had to begin to evolve.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the volcano explosion in Sumatra affect Earth's climate?

2. What life forms are threatened during Earth's Ice Ages?

3. How does de Blij suggest that you give directions if you do not know which way is north, south, east, or west?

4. What two countries were mixed up by President Nixon's staff?

5. How did Earth's Moon form?

(see the answer key)

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