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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. Which of the following countries was never colonized by Europe?
(a) Kenya.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Ethiopia.
(d) South Africa.

2. Which of the following countries does de Blij think will play an important role in the new world order?
(a) Great Britain.
(b) France.
(c) India.
(d) Somalia.

3. Why does de Blij feel that Americans should care about worldwide population growth?
(a) It will cause other countries to use more of Earth's resources.
(b) It will cause Americans to have to provide more foreign aid.
(c) It will cause people in other countries to resent the United States.
(d) It will cause higher pollution levels that will affect the entire globe.

4. Which of the following revolutions occurred during the time period in which the nation-state was becoming popular?
(a) The Russian Revolution.
(b) The Cultural Revolution.
(c) The Technological Revolution.
(d) The Industrial Revolution.

5. What human event coincided with the end of the Little Ice Age?
(a) The Industrial Revolution.
(b) The French Revolution.
(c) The fall of the Roman Empire.
(d) The rise of the Han Dynasty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What war does de Blij say could have been better handled if U.S. leaders had had a better grasp of geography?

2. How did Earth's Moon form?

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

4. What historical event may have given rise to the stories in many cultures of a Great Flood?

5. Why does de Blij feel that American students need to study geography?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the global warming trend that began 18,000 years ago affect Earth?

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

4. Why has Earth's population increased so dramatically?

5. How were the locations of colony boundaries in Africa determined?

6. What is the Exclusive Economic Zone?

7. How does humanity's history on Earth compare with the history of the entire planet?

8. What is divided by national and international borders besides what you can see on a two-dimensional map?

9. Compare and contrast the populations of Europe and of sub-Saharan Africa.

10. What was the world like when the nation-state was emerging?

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