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