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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When did the coldest part of the Little Ice Age occur?
(a) Between 1610 and 1650.
(b) Between 1750 and 1800.
(c) Between 1580 and 1610.
(d) Between 1675 and 1735.

4. Which of the following maps has the smallest scale?
(a) A map of a city.
(b) A map of the world.
(c) A map of a city block.
(d) A map of the United States.

5. How did the Little Ice Age affect Europe?
(a) It produced a golden age.
(b) It strengthened empires.
(c) It caused famines.
(d) It caused the fall of the Minoan civilization.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the biggest problem facing relief agencies trying to provide food for famine victims?

2. What is the name of the interglacial that we are currently in?

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

4. What tool does de Blij say that no household should ever be without?

5. How did Earth's Moon form?

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