HomeQuizKnow Your Geographers (and One Demographer) Quiz
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1. What early 17th-century German geographer established the field of historical geography?

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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