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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 ago did the glaciers from the last Ice Age begin to recede?
(a) The glaciers began to recede 100 years ago.
(b) The glaciers began to recede 10 million years ago.
(c) The glaciers began to recede 18,000 years ago.
(d) The glaciers began to recede 2 billion years ago.

2. About what percentage of American students have studied geography in school?
(a) Less than five percent.
(b) Less than 30 percent.
(c) Less than 50 percent.
(d) Less than 10 percent.

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

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

5. Why is geography different from other disciplines, according to de Blij?
(a) It is always in the news.
(b) It is constantly changing.
(c) It covers science and technology.
(d) It makes unexpected links between topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a geostationary satellite do?

2. When did the coldest part of the Little Ice Age occur?

3. Why has the United States been so slow to convert maps to the metric system?

4. At what point do scientists predict that Earth's population will level off and stop increasing?

5. What had to happen before Earth's land masses could form?

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