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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) All life forms.
(c) Only land animals.
(d) Only marine life.

2. What causes the drift of Earth's continents?
(a) The Moon's gravity.
(b) Plate tectonics.
(c) Ocean currents and tides.
(d) Ice Ages.

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

4. How long have people been making maps?
(a) At least 500 years.
(b) At least 100 years.
(c) At least 1,000 years.
(d) At least 5,000 years.

5. What rationale did Russian President Vladimir Putin give for taking away some rights and freedoms from Russians?
(a) He needed more power in order to restore order.
(b) Russia's allies were insisting on the restoration of authoritarian rule.
(c) Russia should cherish its authoritarian roots.
(d) During the Soviet period, there were no Chechnya-like conflicts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What geographic challenges does Russia have?

2. What other university departments does de Blij feel should be resurrected, along with geography departments?

3. In addition to population, what else does de Blij say will increase in the next century?

4. How did the slave trade between 1700 and 1810 affect Africa?

5. What does a geostationary satellite do?

(see the answer key)

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