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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When President Ronald Reagan visited Brazil, where did he tell people he was happy to be?
(a) Belgium.
(b) Bahrain.
(c) The Bahamas.
(d) Bolivia.

2. What kind of location must be given in degrees, minutes, and seconds of longitude and latitude?
(a) Relative location.
(b) Absolute location.
(c) USGS location.
(d) Prime meridian location.

3. In which of the following countries is the population decreasing?
(a) Saudi Arabia.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Russia.
(d) Albania.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following countries has borders that are in dispute?

3. What life forms are threatened during Earth's Ice Ages?

4. Why does de Blij call global warming a misnomer?

5. How many countries are there in the world?

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