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

2. Which country does de Blij think that Americans should try to be particularly well-informed about?
(a) Botswana.
(b) Mexico.
(c) China.
(d) Iraq.

3. Who does de Blij describe as a modern proponent of environmental determinism?
(a) Jared Diamond.
(b) Brian Fagan.
(c) Stephen Oppenheimer.
(d) Ellsworth Huntington.

4. How is topography shown in United States Geological Survey maps?
(a) With longitude and latitude lines.
(b) With contour lines.
(c) With a compass rose.
(d) With a series of concentric circles.

5. 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) Comparing the structures of government in two different cultures.
(d) Tracking outbreaks of disease and predicting where diseases will spread in the future.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What profession does de Blij say should include training in cartography?

3. In which of the following countries is the population decreasing?

4. What does a geostationary satellite do?

5. About what percentage of American students have studied geography in school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were the locations of colony boundaries in Africa determined?

2. What was Europe like during the coldest part of the Little Ice Age?

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

4. How has the Moon's position in Earth's sky changed since Earth's early years?

5. Why does de Blij say that in 1995 it seemed as though the world could not possibly change any faster than it was currently changing?

6. What was Europe's climate like just before the Little Ice Age began?

7. What is divided by national and international borders besides what you can see on a two-dimensional map?

8. What kinds of unusual linkages does de Blij say that geographers make?

9. Why should Americans care about worldwide population growth?

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

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