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