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Pioneers of Geography
Contributed by: Musa
  • 1. He is the Father of Geography.
A) Vespucci
B) Kant
C) Eratosthenes
D) Strabo
E) Ritter
  • 2. Father of modern geography.
A) Eratosthenes
B) Strabo
C) Carl Ritter
D) Alexander Von Humboldt
E) Emmanuel Kant
  • 3. Pioneer of regional geography and co-founder of modern geography. His major work is " Die Erdkunde".
A) Emmanuel Kant
B) Carl Ritter
C) Strabo
D) Eratosthenes
E) Amerigo Vespucci
  • 4. Author of "Geographica", a 17- volume encyclopedia.
A) Kant
B) Strabo
C) Eratosthenes
D) Ritter
E) Vespucci
  • 5. He distinguished region by unique traits and used empirical and systematic science. Also known as the "enlightenment"
A) Emmanuel Kant
B) Eratosthenes
C) Amerigo Vespucci
D) Alexander Von Humboldt
E) Carl Ritter
  • 6. Direction of earth.
A) West to east
B) East to west
  • 7. Earth's rotation
A) 24 months
B) 24 days
C) 24 hours
D) 24 years
  • 8. Earth's revolution
A) 1.5 years
B) 300 days
C) 365 1/4 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) Plato
B) Socrates
C) Aristotle
  • 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) Copernicus
C) Galileo
  • 15. Earth's shape
A) Round
B) Oval
C) Flat
D) Oblate spheroid
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