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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where would you expect to find the highest infant mortality rates?
(a) In Japan.
(b) In Angola.
(c) In Sweden.
(d) In the United States.

2. Which of the following statements is the best description of Earth's geologic history?
(a) Earth used to have a tropical climate and has gotten steadily more temperate.
(b) Earth has had several Ice Ages separated by shorter warm periods.
(c) Earth is usually warm but has also had some short Ice Ages.
(d) Earth used to have a cold climate and has gotten steadily warmer.

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

4. What is the name of the interglacial that we are currently in?
(a) The Atlanticum.
(b) The Eemian.
(c) The Subboreal.
(d) The Holocene.

5. Why has the United States been so slow to convert maps to the metric system?
(a) The Ordinance of 1785 required land to be laid out in township squares measured in feet.
(b) The metric system is not as efficient for mapmaking as the English system of measurement.
(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. What were climatic conditions like during the Postglacial Optimum?

2. What technological development revolutionized cartography?

3. What population problem is facing European countries?

4. What kind of map does not distort reality?

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

(see the answer key)

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