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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 2 billion years ago.
(d) The glaciers began to recede 18,000 years ago.

2. Why was 1816 called "the year without a summer"?
(a) Because people were so depressed by the dark and cold that year.
(b) Because the Little Ice Age was beginning and it was getting colder.
(c) Because there was so much ash and debris in the air that sunlight could not warm Earth enough for summer.
(d) Because extensive flooding prevented farmers from being able to sow seeds or harvest crops.

3. What cultural group eventually introduced the bubonic plague to Europe?
(a) Mongol caravans traveling west.
(b) Indonesians fleeing volcanic eruptions.
(c) European merchants traveling to China.
(d) African slaves being sold in European markets.

4. Why is the population growing so fast in sub-Saharan Africa?
(a) Religious leaders in those areas encourage families to have more children.
(b) Having more children gives a family higher status in certain cultures.
(c) There are no problems with famine or lack of medical care there.
(d) There is plenty of land on which to build more homes for larger families.

5. What did scientists think was happening to the climate in the 1950s, when de Blij was in graduate school?
(a) Global upheaval.
(b) Global cooling.
(c) Global warming.
(d) No change in climate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is geography different from other disciplines, according to de Blij?

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

3. What causes the drift of Earth's continents?

4. What does de Blij say that the Snowball Earth theory explains?

5. What continent will decline in population by 2050, according to the United Nations?

(see the answer key)

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