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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a fatwa?
(a) A religious pilgrimmage.
(b) A holy war.
(c) A proclamation dictating how Muslims should live.
(d) An extremist Islamic school.

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

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

4. When does de Blij say that geography began to decline in the United States?
(a) When people began to watch television instead of reading books for entertainment.
(b) When political boundaries began to change so fast that it was hard to keep maps up-to-date.
(c) When professional educators decided to combine history, government, and geography into social studies.
(d) When Americans became less willing to travel after 9/11.

5. Which of the following maps can you derive the most accurate estimates of distances from?
(a) A map of a city block.
(b) A map of the United States.
(c) A map of the world.
(d) A map of a city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does de Blij say that the Snowball Earth theory explains?

2. How did colonial powers in Europe divide up the territory in Africa?

3. How long ago did the glaciers from the last Ice Age begin to recede?

4. How do geographers look at the world, according to de Blij?

5. Why did the U.S. support the anti-Soviet rebels in Afghanistan?

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