Geography and Map projection (8th)

For most of history it was believed that the (a)   stood still and was the center of the universe.

Who corroborated what Copernicus said with scientific evidence was:

• Nicolaus Galielo

• Galileo Galilei

• Giordano Bruno

• Aristotle

The model of the Universe in which the Earth was at the center is known as the (a)   model.

Giordano Bruno lived at the same time as Galileo (first part of the 17th century, 1600-1699). Both were Italian, but one difference between them is that Bruno retracted his ideas, while Galileo Galilei was burned to death.

• True

• False

It is not possible to reflect the surface of a sphere (3D) in a plane (2D) in a completely "real way" (a 'projection' method is needed).

• True

• False

In which famous cartographic projection Europe and North America (the entire northern part including Greenland for example) appear much larger than they really are?

• Orthographic

• Goode-Homolosine

• Mercator

• Fuller

The two main branches [ramas] of geography are (a)   Geography and Physical Geography.

Cartography is a discipline of geography that deals with maps, therefore it does not belong to one of the branches of Geography, but is part of both: human geography and physical geography.

• False

• True

Only one of the following disciplines is part of Human Geography:

• Hydrology

• Climatology

• Urban Geography

• Cartography

The terrestrial icosahedron that we made is not only an assembly exercise, it corresponds to a real type of map projection. It is called the ______ map projection.

• Miller

• Albers

• Van Der Grinten

• Fuller