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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Georgetown University decide to do in response to the geographic illiteracy of incoming students?
(a) It required all students to pass a geography test in order to graduate from Georgetown.
(b) It required all students to pass a geography test as part of the admissions process.
(c) It required all students to take a class called Map of the Modern World.
(d) It required all students to take four years of geography.

2. What does a geostationary satellite do?
(a) It can discern features of tiny objects on Earth's surface.
(b) It produces maps of changing weather conditions.
(c) It sends data to GPS devices in cars.
(d) It remains stationary over a particular point on Earth's surface.

3. Which of the following factors has the greatest effect on population growth?
(a) Climate.
(b) The status of women.
(c) Religious faith.
(d) Government policies.

4. Who formulated a grid that is still used to make map projections of the world?
(a) Ferdinand Magellan.
(b) Gerardus Mercator.
(c) Captain Cook.
(d) Battista Agnese.

5. Which of the following is one of the characteristics of a nation-state?
(a) A people who speak the same language but live in different countries.
(b) A territory that is governed by several allied governments.
(c) A territory that exists within boundaries that can be drawn on a map.
(d) A people who wander from place to place as nomads.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were climatic conditions like during the Postglacial Optimum?

2. Why does de Blij feel that Americans have an obligation to be well informed?

3. What tool does de Blij say that no household should ever be without?

4. What reason did Iraq give for invading Kuwait just before the first Gulf War?

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

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