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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event caused Earth's most recent mass extinction?
(a) Mass flooding caused by global warming.
(b) A collision with a comet or asteroid.
(c) The formation of the Moon.
(d) A temporary lowering in the temperature of the Sun.

2. What other university departments does de Blij feel should be resurrected, along with geography departments?
(a) History departments.
(b) Departments of regional studies.
(c) Interdisciplinary studies departments.
(d) Sociology departments.

3. What kind of a map did Vladimir Koppen devise?
(a) A map that showed the movements of glaciers.
(b) A map that showed political boundaries.
(c) A map that showed climate regions.
(d) A map that showed lines of latitude and longitude.

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

5. What problem resulted from the drawing of political boundaries in Africa by European powers?
(a) Cultural and ethnic clashes.
(b) The rise of dictatorships.
(c) Food distribution problems.
(d) Droughts and epidemics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea do?

2. Who would be most likely to use a large scale map?

3. When did China first begin to feel the impact of the Little Ice Age?

4. What profession does de Blij say should include training in cartography?

5. What reason did Iraq give for invading Kuwait just before the first Gulf War?

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