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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What other world does geography traditionally deal with, in addition to the human world?
(a) The philosophical world.
(b) The cultural world.
(c) The astronomical world.
(d) The natural world.

2. What was Earth like during its first 800 million years?
(a) Earth was covered in ice.
(b) Earth was very hot.
(c) Earth had a temperate climate.
(d) Earth had warm and cool regions.

3. How many mass extinctions have occurred during Earth's history?
(a) Hundreds.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) None.

4. What historical event may have given rise to the stories in many cultures of a Great Flood?
(a) The Medieval Optimum.
(b) The Postglacial Optimum.
(c) Seismic waves after the eruption of Thira.
(d) The flooding of the Black Sea area.

5. When did the coldest part of the Little Ice Age occur?
(a) Between 1580 and 1610.
(b) Between 1675 and 1735.
(c) Between 1750 and 1800.
(d) Between 1610 and 1650.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When President Ronald Reagan visited Brazil, where did he tell people he was happy to be?

3. What does a geostationary satellite do?

4. What life forms are threatened during Earth's Ice Ages?

5. What did Gilbert Grosvenor , the grandson of the National Geographic Society's 1950 president, do to improve geographic literacy in the United States?

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