What is the shape of the Earth?
- A. Sphere
- B. Round
- C. Circle
- D. Oblate
Correct Answer: D. Oblate
Since the Earth is flattened at the poles and bulges at the Equator, geodesy represents the figure of the Earth as an oblate spheroid.
Correct Answer: D. Archimedes
Correct Answer: B. German
Correct Answer: A. Thomas Davenport (1873)
Correct Answer: B. Elias Howe (1846)
Correct Answer: D. Chicago
Correct Answer: D. Clock at British Parliament Building