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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does de Blij feel that Americans should care about worldwide population growth?
(a) It will cause higher pollution levels that will affect the entire globe.
(b) It will cause people in other countries to resent the United States.
(c) It will cause Americans to have to provide more foreign aid.
(d) It will cause other countries to use more of Earth's resources.

2. How does Europe's population compare with the population of the United States?
(a) Europe has half the population of the United States.
(b) Europe has about the same size population as the United States.
(c) Europe has twice the population of the United States.
(d) Europe is about four times more populous than the United States.

3. What does de Blij think may eventually happen to the European Union?
(a) It will become a hub for terrorism and will become a troubled region.
(b) It will become overwhelmed by foreign debt and domestic taxes.
(c) It may collapse into disorder and economic chaos.
(d) It may become a superpower that challenges U.S. dominance.

4. What did H.J. Mackinder argue in what de Blij calls the "most often cited article in geography"?
(a) That the next superpower would be the United States.
(b) That the next superpower would have nuclear weapons.
(c) That the next superpower would be a Eurasian land-based country.
(d) That the next superpower would be from east Asia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the nation-state emerge in Europe?

2. What group provides al Qaeda with most of its soldiers?

3. How long have people been making maps?

4. What event caused Earth's most recent mass extinction?

5. About what percentage of American students have studied geography in school?

(see the answer key)

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