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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does de Blij say should not have been eliminated by government budget cuts?

2. When does de Blij say that geography began to decline in the United States?

3. When were the boundaries of nation-states in Africa drawn?

4. What did scientists think was happening to the climate in the 1950s, when de Blij was in graduate school?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why has Earth's population increased so dramatically?

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

6. 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?

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

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

9. Why does de Blij say that people might produce maps that are misleading?

10. What did Gilbert Grosvenor do to revitalize the practice of geography? Did it work?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the conditions leading up to the Little Ice Age with conditions present in the world today. Do you think that another Little Ice Age is likely, based on the evidence presented by de Blij? If another Ice Age were to occur, what do you think would be the consequences for humanity?

Essay Topic 2

Why does geography matter? Write an essay explaining how de Blij answers this question.

Essay Topic 3

Explain how the European Union came to be formed. Be sure to include obstacles to the union in your discussion, as well as the historical background leading up to the formation of the European Union.

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