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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What life forms are threatened during Earth's Ice Ages?
(a) Only plant life.
(b) Only marine life.
(c) All life forms.
(d) Only land animals.

2. What is the Triple Frontier?
(a) Mexico, El Salvador, and Honduras.
(b) Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil.
(c) Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia.
(d) Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh.

3. How many countries are there in the world?
(a) Nearly 200.
(b) Nearly 300.
(c) Nearly 400.
(d) Nearly 100.

4. Who would be most likely to use a large scale map?
(a) A journalist writing about news events in a faraway country.
(b) A tourist finding his or her way around a museum.
(c) A student learning about world geography.
(d) A pilot following a route from one city to another.

5. Which country does de Blij think that Americans should try to be particularly well-informed about?
(a) China.
(b) Botswana.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Iraq.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technological development revolutionized cartography?

2. Why was 1816 called "the year without a summer"?

3. Why did life expectancy in Botswana fall from 60 to 39 between 1994 and 2004?

4. Why does de Blij feel that Americans have an obligation to be well informed?

5. As the world's population increases, where does de Blij say the increase in population will go to live?

(see the answer key)

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