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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. In addition to population, what else does de Blij say will increase in the next century?
(a) The proportion of young people compared to old people.
(b) Tax rates.
(c) Education levels.
(d) Infant mortality rates.

2. What is the biggest problem facing relief agencies trying to provide food for famine victims?
(a) Lack of fertilizer and insecticide for crops.
(b) Continuing drought.
(c) Lack of money to pay for food.
(d) Problems with food distribution.

3. What profession does de Blij say should include training in cartography?
(a) Politics.
(b) Art.
(c) Law.
(d) Teaching.

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

5. How did Earth's Moon form?
(a) An asteroid orbiting the Sun came too close to Earth.
(b) A large section of Earth split off to become the Moon.
(c) A planet-sized object collided with the newly formed Earth.
(d) A passing comet began orbiting Earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long ago did the most recent global warming trend start?

2. How did the volcano explosion in Sumatra affect life on Earth?

3. At what point do scientists predict that Earth's population will level off and stop increasing?

4. What kind of a map did Vladimir Koppen devise?

5. Who would be most likely to use a large scale map?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the difference between a large scale map and a small scale map?

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

3. Why should Americans care about worldwide population growth?

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

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

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

7. What might we learn about a country's leaders' intentions by studying its maps?

8. What empires thrived during the Medieval Optimum?

9. How do scientists think that Earth might have acquired its oceans?

10. How do mass extinctions on Earth usually occur?

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