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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What human event coincided with the end of the Little Ice Age?

2. Why is a compass rose more useful in the United States than in Europe?

3. Which country does de Blij think that Americans should try to be particularly well-informed about?

4. Which of the following countries adds nine or ten million people to the world's population every year?

5. Which of the following European countries did NOT colonize Africa?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Exclusive Economic Zone?

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

3. What does de Blij fear might happen before Earth reaches its natural population limit?

4. 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?

5. How is measuring distances on a globe different from measuring distances on a map?

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

7. Why can't Europe solve its population problem simply by increasing immigration?

8. What empires thrived during the Medieval Optimum?

9. What was Europe like during the coldest part of the Little Ice Age?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is geography connected with issues of national security? Support your answer with examples from Why Geography Matters.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the connection between climate change and the epidemic of bubonic plague that devastated Europe in the 1400s.

Essay Topic 3

How can maps reflect the biases of the cartographer(s)? How might politicians use maps to achieve their own goals?

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