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Historical Oceanography
Test Description: Explorers and Voyages
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1) Who used stick charts as navigational tools when exploring islands in the Pacific?
A
Vikings
B
Polynesians
C
Chinese
D
Phoenecians
2) Who was incharge of the US Exploring Expedition which reached Antarctica?
A
Charles Wilkes
B
James Cook
C
Charles Thomson
D
Charles Darwin
3) US Navy Commander who is known as the Father of Physical Oceanography?
A
William Beebe
B
Charles Wilkes
C
Alexander Agassiz
D
Matthew Maury
4) Who led the Challenger Expedition which spent 4 years studying the ocean?
A
Charles Darwin
B
Fridtjof Nansen
C
Charles Thomson
D
James and John Ross
5) Who was the first to circumnavigate the globe?
A
Ferdinand Magellan
B
Charles Darwin
C
James Cook
D
Vasco da Gama
6) Who sailed aboard the Fram which study ice flows in the Artic Ocean?
A
Erik the Red
B
Leif Erikkson
C
Bjarni Herjolfsson
D
Fridtjof Nansen
7) Who discovered Greenland in 981?
A
Eric the Red "Thorvaldson"
B
Leif Eriksson
C
Fridtjof Nansen
D
James Ross
8) Who led an expedition to the Arctic and located the magnetic north pole?
A
James Cook
B
James Ross
C
John Harrison
D
Fridtjof Nansen
9) Who sailed aboard the Beagle and theorized how coral reefs form around islands?
A
Charles Darwin
B
Charles Wilkes
C
James Cook
D
Charles Thomson
10) Which was the first research vessel headed by Alexander Agassiz?
A
HMS Challenger
B
Beagle
C
Albatross
D
Fram
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