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Pioneers of Geography - Quiz
  • 1. He is the Father of Geography.
A) Eratosthenes
B) Strabo
C) Vespucci
D) Kant
E) Ritter
  • 2. Father of modern geography.
A) Emmanuel Kant
B) Strabo
C) Carl Ritter
D) Eratosthenes
E) Alexander Von Humboldt
  • 3. Pioneer of regional geography and co-founder of modern geography. His major work is " Die Erdkunde".
A) Carl Ritter
B) Amerigo Vespucci
C) Eratosthenes
D) Emmanuel Kant
E) Strabo
  • 4. Author of "Geographica", a 17- volume encyclopedia.
A) Strabo
B) Kant
C) Vespucci
D) Eratosthenes
E) Ritter
  • 5. He distinguished region by unique traits and used empirical and systematic science. Also known as the "enlightenment"
A) Eratosthenes
B) Alexander Von Humboldt
C) Amerigo Vespucci
D) Carl Ritter
E) Emmanuel Kant
  • 6. Direction of earth.
A) West to east
B) East to west
  • 7. Earth's rotation
A) 24 hours
B) 24 years
C) 24 days
D) 24 months
  • 8. Earth's revolution
A) 1.5 years
B) 360 das
C) 300 days
D) 365 1/4 days
  • 9. What causes the seasons?
A) Revolution
B) Global warming
C) Earth's titled axis
D) Rotation
  • 10. Sun is the center of the universe
A) Heliocentrism
B) Geocentrism
  • 11. Earth is the center of the universe
A) Heliocentrism
B) Geocentrism
  • 12. Who popularized geocentrism
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Socrates
  • 13. Claudius Ptolemy's role in geocentrism
A) Added mathematical explanation
B) Made accumate measurements
C) Popularized it
  • 14. Who calculated the motion of planets
A) Kepler
B) Galileo
C) Copernicus
  • 15. Earth's shape
A) Round
B) Oval
C) Flat
D) Oblate spheroid
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