How Well Do You Know Cartography?
10 Questions
| Total Attempts: 334
Cartography is the branch of geography that deals with the making and discovery of maps. Take our cartography quiz to discover some knowledge of cartography.
Questions and Answers
- 1.
Who is the most famous Cartographer?- A.
Ptolemy
- B.
Hipparchus
- C.
Eratosthenes
- D.
Al Idrisi
- 2.
The most famous Cartographer lived for how many years?
- A.
55-60
- B.
65-70
- C.
69-70
- D.
59-60
- 3.
Cartography is formed from which if these languages?
- A.
Spanish
- B.
French
- C.
Greek
- D.
Roman
- 4.
The earliest known mapnwas painted on what?
- A.
An animal skin
- B.
A sheet of paper
- C.
A piece of wood
- D.
A caved wall
- 5.
What is another name for calling Cartography?
- A.
Map Projection
- B.
Map Construction
- C.
Map Drawing
- D.
Map Making
- 6.
Cartography has been an integral part of the human history for which range of years?
- A.
Hundreds of year
- B.
Thousands of year
- C.
Millions of year
- D.
Billions of year
- 7.
Who is referred to as the Father of Cartography?
- A.
Heinrich Berann
- B.
Hermann Haack
- C.
Edgar Lehmann
- D.
William R. Shepherd
- 8.
All of these Geographers made the World map except...
- A.
Juan de la Cosa
- B.
Cantino
- C.
Caverio
- D.
Coutinho
- 9.
Out of these people that created maps, identify the one that created the oldest map.
- A.
Anaximander
- B.
Posidonius
- C.
Claes Janszoon Visscher
- D.
Muhammad al-Idrisi
- 10.
The creator of the oldest map was born in which year?
- A.
620 BC
- B.
610 BC
- C.
712 BC
- D.
814 BC
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Sample QuestionWhich of these is odd to cartography?
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