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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. How many countries are there in the world?

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

3. What do geographers analyze using the gravity model?

4. Which of the following countries has borders that are in dispute?

5. Which of the following empires thrived during the Medieval Optimum?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Europe's climate like just before the Little Ice Age began?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Explain why Earth's continents drift. What theory explains this process?

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Chairman Mao Zedong change China? Does de Blij think that Mao changed China for the better? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

What lessons does de Blij think that we can learn from the U.S. war with Iraq?

Essay Topic 3

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

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