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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long ago did the most recent global warming trend start?
(a) Around 18,000 years ago.
(b) Around 1,000 years ago.
(c) Around 100 years ago.
(d) Around 50 years ago.

2. If Earth's population keeps growing at the present rate, how high will it be by the year 2035?
(a) Eight billion.
(b) Twenty billion.
(c) One million.
(d) One billion.

3. What does de Blij say that the Snowball Earth theory explains?
(a) It explains Earth's first deep freeze.
(b) It explains the extinction of the dinosaurs.
(c) It explains why glaciers form during Ice Ages.
(d) It explains how Earth's oceans formed.

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

5. Who does de Blij describe as a modern proponent of environmental determinism?
(a) Brian Fagan.
(b) Jared Diamond.
(c) Ellsworth Huntington.
(d) Stephen Oppenheimer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of location must be given in degrees, minutes, and seconds of longitude and latitude?

2. How far south did North American glaciers reach during the last Ice Age?

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

4. What is the name of the interglacial that we are currently in?

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

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