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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many mass extinctions have occurred during Earth's history?
(a) Three.
(b) None.
(c) One.
(d) Hundreds.

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 poor sanitation and hygiene.
(d) Because of the AIDS epidemic.

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

4. Why does de Blij feel that Americans should care about worldwide population growth?
(a) It will cause people in other countries to resent the United States.
(b) It will cause higher pollution levels that will affect the entire globe.
(c) It will cause Americans to have to provide more foreign aid.
(d) It will cause other countries to use more of Earth's resources.

5. 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) The Ordinance of 1785 required land to be laid out in township squares measured in feet.
(c) Geographers prefer not to use the metric system in maps until it is used for other things too.
(d) U.S. geographers are not accustomed to the metric system and prefer not to use it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Dr. John Snow use maps to save lives in London during the 19th century?

2. How is topography shown in United States Geological Survey maps?

3. What cultural group eventually introduced the bubonic plague to Europe?

4. What was Earth like during its first 800 million years?

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

(see the answer key)

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