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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused the second Agricultural Revolution?
(a) The influx of technology brought back by merchants from China.
(b) The need to find ways to produce more crops to feed starving people.
(c) The warm weather that was perfect for farming.
(d) The cultural exchange brought about by colonialism.

2. Which of the following activities requires the skills of a geographer?
(a) Studying the history and current events of a particular country.
(b) Traveling to a distant place and blogging about the trip in an online journal.
(c) Comparing the structures of government in two different cultures.
(d) Tracking outbreaks of disease and predicting where diseases will spread in the future.

3. When does de Blij say that geography began to decline in the United States?
(a) When political boundaries began to change so fast that it was hard to keep maps up-to-date.
(b) When people began to watch television instead of reading books for entertainment.
(c) When professional educators decided to combine history, government, and geography into social studies.
(d) When Americans became less willing to travel after 9/11.

4. What two inventions have done the most to increase life expectancy?
(a) The stethoscope and the hypodermic needle.
(b) The electrocardiogram and the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine.
(c) Electricity and electric lights.
(d) Effective soap and the flushing toilet.

5. What approach to foreign affairs is fostered by the decision not to teach geography in public schools?
(a) Paternalism toward developing countries.
(b) An international outlook.
(c) Callous disregard for the welfare of other societies.
(d) Isolationism and parochialism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What technological development revolutionized cartography?

3. How do scientists measure the movement of North America each year?

4. Why does de Blij say that it is problematic for urban areas to continue to expand?

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

(see the answer key)

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