Orientation and Study Skills

Year one orientation and study skills exam:

  • Geography handbook
  • Studying effectively
  • Academic infoverse
  • Academic literature
  • Geography and geographers
  • Timelines and Ancient Geography
  • Exploration and Empire 
  • On Truth and Maps
  • Radical Geography
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  • Created by: Sophie
  • Created on: 18-01-15 12:07

1. Which statement about Bernhard Varenius (1622-1650) is incorrect?

  • Divided general geography into 3 – Absolute, relative and Comparative
  • Published Geographia Exlpora (1660)
  • Influential in the emergence of humanism in which human reason became the basis for existence
  • Published Geographia Generalis (1650)
  • A contemporary of famous Dutch explorers and navigators such as Abel Tasman
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2. Which is not an electronic format that you can submit a piece of coursework in?

  • RTF
  • Notebook
  • PDF
  • WordPerfect
  • MS Word
  • Plain Text
  • Postscript
  • HTML

3. Which statement about Prince Henry the Navigator between 1394-1460 is incorrect?

  • The European pioneer of exploration
  • Obsessed by the Christian legend of Prester John
  • Wealthy Greek Prince who sponsored many explorers
  • Sponsored expeditions that discovered the mouth of the Congo and Cape Verde

4. Which statement is incorrect about Iliad?

  • Odysseus is the King of Ithaca and Mr Crafty; he came up with the ruse of the Trojan Horse to get Greek warriors inside the walls of Troy
  • . The Greeks are there to rescue Helen, formerly Helen of Sparta, who was abducted by/ran off with Troy to Paris
  • Set during the ten-year siege of Troy (Ilium) by Greek kings and heroes, telling of a week of arguments and battles

5. Which statement is incorrect in what each Greek philosopher looked at and created the Truth Wars of the 20th Century?

  • Rhetoricians- agreeing with everyone, espeically Protagors the relativist and the Gorgias the Nihilist
  • Sophists- teaches for money
  • Presocratics- science, logic and paradox
  • Socrates- unexamined life is not worth living

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