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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What issue has caused conflicts along the border between Germany and the Netherlands?
(a) Civil rights.
(b) Mining rights.
(c) Water rights.
(d) Human rights.

2. What had to happen before Earth's land masses could form?
(a) Earth's crust had to begin to cool into rock.
(b) The Moon had to begin orbiting Earth.
(c) Life had to begin to evolve.
(d) The oceans had to form.

3. Why did the volcano explosion in Sumatra affect Earth's climate?
(a) It caused a tsunami.
(b) It shifted one of the plates in Earth's crust.
(c) It sent millions of tons of ash and debris into the atmosphere.
(d) It heated Earth's atmosphere.

4. Who would be most likely to use a large scale map?
(a) A journalist writing about news events in a faraway country.
(b) A tourist finding his or her way around a museum.
(c) A student learning about world geography.
(d) A pilot following a route from one city to another.

5. Which of the following activities requires the skills of a geographer?
(a) Comparing the structures of government in two different cultures.
(b) Studying the history and current events of a particular country.
(c) Tracking outbreaks of disease and predicting where diseases will spread in the future.
(d) Traveling to a distant place and blogging about the trip in an online journal.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were the boundaries of nation-states in Africa drawn?

2. Which of the following countries adds nine or ten million people to the world's population every year?

3. What technological development revolutionized cartography?

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

5. What kind of a map did Vladimir Koppen devise?

(see the answer key)

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