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