Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

Harm de Blij
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Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

Harm de Blij
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long ago did the glaciers from the last Ice Age begin to recede?
(a) The glaciers began to recede 100 years ago.
(b) The glaciers began to recede 10 million years ago.
(c) The glaciers began to recede 2 billion years ago.
(d) The glaciers began to recede 18,000 years ago.

2. How long has the European unification movement been underway?
(a) Since the U.S. initiated the Marshall Plan in 1948.
(b) Since the League of Nations was formed.
(c) Since the break-up of the former Soviet Union.
(d) Since the end of World War I.

3. What did Gilbert Grosvenor , the grandson of the National Geographic Society's 1950 president, do to improve geographic literacy in the United States?
(a) He began writing books about geography for children.
(b) He traveled the country giving seminars in public schools.
(c) He founded a map publishing company.
(d) He raised money for geography education and testified in Congress.

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

5. Why did the volcano explosion in Sumatra affect Earth's climate?
(a) It heated Earth's atmosphere.
(b) It shifted one of the plates in Earth's crust.
(c) It sent millions of tons of ash and debris into the atmosphere.
(d) It caused a tsunami.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does de Blij feel that Americans should care about worldwide population growth?

2. What cultural group eventually introduced the bubonic plague to Europe?

3. What technological development revolutionized cartography?

4. What does de Blij say that the Snowball Earth theory explains?

5. What is the Triple Frontier?

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