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WorksheetsGeography and Map projection (8th)
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
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
