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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Dr. John Snow use maps to save lives in London during the 19th century?
(a) He used them to plot new cases of cholera.
(b) He used them to decide where to put streetlights.
(c) He used them to teach firefighters to find their way around London.
(d) He used them to plot the locations of attacks during a crime wave.

2. Why is the population growing so fast in sub-Saharan Africa?
(a) There is plenty of land on which to build more homes for larger families.
(b) Having more children gives a family higher status in certain cultures.
(c) Religious leaders in those areas encourage families to have more children.
(d) There are no problems with famine or lack of medical care there.

3. What kind of location must be given in degrees, minutes, and seconds of longitude and latitude?
(a) Absolute location.
(b) Relative location.
(c) USGS location.
(d) Prime meridian location.

4. What human event coincided with the end of the Little Ice Age?
(a) The Industrial Revolution.
(b) The fall of the Roman Empire.
(c) The rise of the Han Dynasty.
(d) The French Revolution.

5. How did Earth's Moon form?
(a) A passing comet began orbiting Earth.
(b) An asteroid orbiting the Sun came too close to Earth.
(c) A large section of Earth split off to become the Moon.
(d) A planet-sized object collided with the newly formed Earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following activities requires the skills of a geographer?

2. What technological development revolutionized cartography?

3. What historical event may have given rise to the stories in many cultures of a Great Flood?

4. How do geographers look at the world, according to de Blij?

5. What two countries were mixed up by President Nixon's staff?

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