Multiple Choice
Match the term or person with the appropriate phrase. You may use each answer once, more than once or not at all.
-Eratosthenes
A) first European explorer to see the Pacific Ocean
B) led voyage that first circumnavigated the globe
C) used ecological approach to solve fisheries problem
D) mapped world with Roman knowledge showing latitude and longitude
E) first determination of Earth's circumference
F) led voyage that first used the marine chronometer
G) made important observations about drift of sea ice
H) mapped the Mediterranean Sea for the Greeks
I) established impermanent settlement in North America and the first Europeans to explore Iceland and Greenland
J) incorrectly concluded that no life exists in deep ocean
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