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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the first modern humans called?
(a) Cro-Magnons.
(b) Neanderthals.
(c) Homo erectus.
(d) Homo habilus.

2. How will Earth's population in the year 2015 compare with Earth's population in "the year without a summer"?
(a) Earth will have seven times more people than it did then.
(b) Earth will have double the number of people in 2015 than it did then.
(c) Earth will have about the same number of people in 2015 as it did then.
(d) Earth had seven times more people that year than it does now.

3. What does de Blij say that the Snowball Earth theory explains?
(a) It explains Earth's first deep freeze.
(b) It explains how Earth's oceans formed.
(c) It explains the extinction of the dinosaurs.
(d) It explains why glaciers form during Ice Ages.

4. Which of the following empires thrived during the Medieval Optimum?
(a) The Russian and French Empires.
(b) The Aztec and Mayan Empires.
(c) The Empire of Alexander the Great.
(d) The Roman and Han Empires.

5. What does de Blij mean when he refers to a mental map?
(a) He means the map of each person's individual universe: one's neighborhood, school, and community.
(b) He means that the brain changes structurally as a result of studying cartography.
(c) He means the map of the brain that is being developed by neuroscientists.
(d) He means the brain's ability to visualize maps mentally when no map is available.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other university departments does de Blij feel should be resurrected, along with geography departments?

2. When did China first begin to feel the impact of the Little Ice Age?

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

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

5. Why has the United States been so slow to convert maps to the metric system?

(see the answer key)

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