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