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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following maps has the smallest scale?
(a) A map of a city block.
(b) A map of a city.
(c) A map of the United States.
(d) A map of the world.

2. What does the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea do?
(a) It gives biologists the right to study the ocean floor.
(b) It establishes fishing seasons and limits.
(c) It establishes a procedure for tsunami notification.
(d) It establishes recognized ocean borders.

3. What continent will decline in population by 2050, according to the United Nations?
(a) Asia.
(b) Europe.
(c) North America.
(d) Africa.

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

5. How long have people been making maps?
(a) At least 500 years.
(b) At least 5,000 years.
(c) At least 100 years.
(d) At least 1,000 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does de Blij feel that Americans are unprepared to evaluate global warming?

2. Which of the following revolutions occurred during the time period in which the nation-state was becoming popular?

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

4. What approach to foreign affairs is fostered by the decision not to teach geography in public schools?

5. In addition to population, what else does de Blij say will increase in the next century?

Short Essay Questions

1. What caused the "year without a summer"?

2. How does humanity's history on Earth compare with the history of the entire planet?

3. Explain why Earth's continents drift. What theory explains this process?

4. What empires thrived during the Medieval Optimum?

5. How do mass extinctions on Earth usually occur?

6. How did political maps change during the age of colonialism?

7. Why is it a problem for Europe's population to decline?

8. How did the global warming trend that began 18,000 years ago affect Earth?

9. How does de Blij say that stories of the Great Flood may have started?

10. How is measuring distances on a globe different from measuring distances on a map?

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