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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What life forms are threatened during Earth's Ice Ages?
(a) Only marine life.
(b) All life forms.
(c) Only land animals.
(d) Only plant life.

5. Why did life expectancy in Botswana fall from 60 to 39 between 1994 and 2004?
(a) Because of drought and famine.
(b) Because of severe flooding and cholera.
(c) Because of the AIDS epidemic.
(d) Because of poor sanitation and hygiene.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following empires thrived during the Medieval Optimum?

2. What did scientists think was happening to the climate in the 1950s, when de Blij was in graduate school?

3. What other world does geography traditionally deal with, in addition to the human world?

4. Which ocean does de Blij say is becoming the dominant world ocean?

5. What was Earth like during its first 800 million years?

(see the answer key)

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