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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long have people been making maps?
(a) At least 500 years.
(b) At least 1,000 years.
(c) At least 100 years.
(d) At least 5,000 years.

2. What life forms are threatened during Earth's Ice Ages?
(a) Only marine life.
(b) Only plant life.
(c) Only land animals.
(d) All life forms.

3. What historical event may have given rise to the stories in many cultures of a Great Flood?
(a) Seismic waves after the eruption of Thira.
(b) The Medieval Optimum.
(c) The flooding of the Black Sea area.
(d) The Postglacial Optimum.

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

5. What phase of Earth's geologic history are we in today?
(a) The Pleistocene.
(b) The Archean.
(c) The Eocene.
(d) The Hadean.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do geographers analyze using the gravity model?

3. What event caused Earth's most recent mass extinction?

4. What does a geostationary satellite do?

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

(see the answer key)

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