Exploration Vocabulary

tool that helps sailors navigate by the position of the stars

• circumnavigation

• northwest passage

• astrolabe

• explorer

A person who travels to a new place to learn about it.

• circumnavigation

• northwest passage

• astrolabe

• explorer

A water route from the Atlantic to the Pacific through northern Canada and along the northern coast of Alaska. Sought by navigators since the 16th century.

• circumnavigation

• northwest passage

• astrolabe

• explorer

travelling completely around the world, usually by water

• circumnavigation

• northwest passage

• astrolabe

• explorer

a small, fast sailing ship of the 15th-17th centuries invented by the Portuguese which had 2 or 3 masts

• caravel

• missionary

• explore

• colony

A person who spreads his or her religious beliefs to others

• caravel

• missionary

• explore

• colony

to travel around a new, unknown place to see what it is like

• caravel

• missionary

• explore

• colony

A land controlled by another nation

• caravel

• missionary

• explore

• colony

Study of how societies decide what to produce, how to produce it, and how to distribute what they produce

• economics

• exploration

• colonize

• conquistador

to travel for the purpose of discovery

• economics

• exploration

• colonize

• conquistador