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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Dr. John Snow use maps to save lives in London during the 19th century?
(a) He used them to decide where to put streetlights.
(b) He used them to teach firefighters to find their way around London.
(c) He used them to plot the locations of attacks during a crime wave.
(d) He used them to plot new cases of cholera.

2. How do geographers look at the world, according to de Blij?
(a) Structurally.
(b) Spatially.
(c) Chronologically.
(d) Temporally.

3. What event caused Earth's most recent mass extinction?
(a) A temporary lowering in the temperature of the Sun.
(b) The formation of the Moon.
(c) A collision with a comet or asteroid.
(d) Mass flooding caused by global warming.

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

5. What were climatic conditions like during the Postglacial Optimum?
(a) Much warmer than they are today.
(b) An Ice Age was going on at the time.
(c) Much colder than they are today.
(d) Similar to today.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Georgetown University decide to do in response to the geographic illiteracy of incoming students?

3. What were the first modern humans called?

4. Where would you expect to find the highest infant mortality rates?

5. In addition to population, what else does de Blij say will increase in the next century?

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