Quiz  /  Know Your Geographers (and One Demographer) Quiz

  • 1. 
    What early 17th-century German geographer established the field of historical geography?

  • Guillaume Delisle
  • Carl O. Sauer
  • Philipp Clüver
  • Desiderius Erasmus

  • 2. 
    Who was the American geographer and geologist who founded the science of geomorphology, the study of landforms?

  • William Morris Davis
  • Gerardus Mercator
  • Isaiah Bowman
  • J. Russell Smith

  • 3. 
    Who was author of Geography, the only extant work covering the whole range of peoples and countries known to Greeks and Romans during the reign of the emperor Augustus?

  • Strabo
  • Plotinus
  • Herodotus
  • Scipio Africanus

  • 4. 
    For what work is the 17th-century geographer Bernhardus Varenius best known?

  • Theatrum orbis terrarum
  • Summa theologiae
  • Areopagitica
  • Geographia generalis

  • 5. 
    Who wrote the 1855 book The Physical Geography of the Sea, which was considered the first text on oceanography?

  • Matthew Fontaine Maury
  • David Farragut
  • Robert Edwin Peary
  • Chester William Nimitz

  • 6. 
    Who cofounded, with Alexander von Humboldt, the modern science of geography?

  • Max Planck
  • Carl Ritter
  • Griffith Taylor
  • Georg Forster

  • 7. 
    What 17th-century English statistician is generally considered the founder of the science of demography?

  • Paul Vidal de La Blache
  • William L. Graf
  • John Graunt
  • Halford Mackinder

  • 8. 
    Which 19th-century German naturalist and explorer wrote the book Kosmos and made a significant contribution to the popularization of science?

  • Carl Ritter
  • Paul Vidal de La Blache
  • Ellsworth Huntington
  • Alexander von Humboldt
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