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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the world's population increases, where does de Blij say the increase in population will go to live?
(a) To urban areas.
(b) To more temperate regions.
(c) To developed countries.
(d) To undeveloped countries.

2. How did Dr. John Snow use maps to save lives in London during the 19th century?
(a) He used them to teach firefighters to find their way around London.
(b) He used them to plot new cases of cholera.
(c) He used them to plot the locations of attacks during a crime wave.
(d) He used them to decide where to put streetlights.

3. How did colonial powers in Europe divide up the territory in Africa?
(a) They fought wars.
(b) They used economic embargoes to force Africans to agree.
(c) They bought the land from indigenous groups.
(d) They negotiated peacefully.

4. What caused the Younger Dryas?
(a) A volcanic eruption.
(b) Ice sheets sliding into the oceans.
(c) The Mongol invasions.
(d) The Little Ice Age.

5. What had to happen before Earth's land masses could form?
(a) Life had to begin to evolve.
(b) Earth's crust had to begin to cool into rock.
(c) The Moon had to begin orbiting Earth.
(d) The oceans had to form.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Georgetown University decide to do in response to the geographic illiteracy of incoming students?

2. How many mass extinctions have occurred during Earth's history?

3. Which of the following maps has the smallest scale?

4. When did the coldest part of the Little Ice Age occur?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does de Blij feel that U.S. power is changing with regard to China and India?

2. What kinds of unusual linkages does de Blij say that geographers make?

3. Why does de Blij say that in 1995 it seemed as though the world could not possibly change any faster than it was currently changing?

4. How has the Moon's position in Earth's sky changed since Earth's early years?

5. How did political maps change during the age of colonialism?

6. How does de Blij say that stories of the Great Flood may have started?

7. Explain what the climate has been like during Earth's current geologic period, the Pleistocene.

8. What does de Blij mean when he says that geography is an antidote for isolationism and provincialism?

9. What does de Blij mean when he says that geographers look at the world spatially?

10. What did Gilbert Grosvenor do to revitalize the practice of geography? Did it work?

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