History of Oceanography

Who were the great sailors and explorers of the Mediterranean?

• Phoenecians

• Polynesians

• Vikings

• Egyptians

Who were the great sailors and explorers of the South Pacific?

• Polynesians

• Phoenecians

• Vikings

• Egyptians

Who were the first sailors to reach and settle in Iceland, Greenland, and North America?

• Vikings

• Phoenecians

• Polynesians

• Greeks

Who was first to circumnavigate Africa?

• Hanno

• Eratosthenes

• Heradotus

• Aristotle

Who is credited with inventing the magnetic compass?

• Arabs

• Chinese

• Romans

• Greeks

The map projection we use most often today is call the

• Mercator projection

• Heradotus projection

• Eratosthenes projection

• Hadley projection

Identification of position north or south of the equator was made possible by Hadley's invention of the

• sextant

• compass

• barometer

• chronograph

The captain of the first voyages made purely for the scientific study of the oceans was

• Cook

• Harrison

• Behaim

• Toricelli

2200 years ago, this man calculated the circumference of the Earth using on simple math.

• Eratosthenes

• Heradotus

• Aristotle

• Hanno

This an's map of the Mediterranean world surrounded by endless ocean would dominate map making for over 1000 years.

• Heradotus

• Hanno

• Eratosthenes

• Aristotle