View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were climatic conditions like during the Postglacial Optimum?
(a) Similar to today.
(b) Much warmer than they are today.
(c) An Ice Age was going on at the time.
(d) Much colder than they are today.

2. Why has the United States been so slow to convert maps to the metric system?
(a) Geographers prefer not to use the metric system in maps until it is used for other things too.
(b) The metric system is not as efficient for mapmaking as the English system of measurement.
(c) The Ordinance of 1785 required land to be laid out in township squares measured in feet.
(d) U.S. geographers are not accustomed to the metric system and prefer not to use it.

3. What two inventions have done the most to increase life expectancy?
(a) Electricity and electric lights.
(b) The stethoscope and the hypodermic needle.
(c) The electrocardiogram and the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine.
(d) Effective soap and the flushing toilet.

4. Which of the following empires thrived during the Medieval Optimum?
(a) The Russian and French Empires.
(b) The Roman and Han Empires.
(c) The Empire of Alexander the Great.
(d) The Aztec and Mayan Empires.

5. Where would you expect to find the highest infant mortality rates?
(a) In the United States.
(b) In Angola.
(c) In Sweden.
(d) In Japan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did European countries fail to consider when they colonized Africa?

2. What did Gilbert Grosvenor , the grandson of the National Geographic Society's 1950 president, do to improve geographic literacy in the United States?

3. What does de Blij mean when he refers to a mental map?

4. Which of the following revolutions occurred during the time period in which the nation-state was becoming popular?

5. What does a geostationary satellite do?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 419 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample