Extra Practice for Test Chapter 2 Exploring the Americas

Exchange of goods and ideas between the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

• Classical
• Northwest Passage
• Columbian Exchange
• Mosque

An imaginary boundary between the land owned by either Spain or Portugal.

• Line of Demarcation
• Strait
• Astrolabe
• Coureur de bois

The global transfer of foods, plants, and animals during the colonization of the Americas was known as the.

• Middle Passage
• Columbian Exchange
• Northwest Passage
• Industrial Revolution

What was one result of the Columbian Exchange

• Native American Indian populations continued to increase
• The African slave trade ended
• Diseases were spread to native populations
• Spain's empire in the New World declined

Which of the following terms means to sail completely around the world? (L2)

• commerce 
• excommunicate
• circumference 
• circumnavigate

What is an astrolabe? 

• A tool that helped sailors use the sun and stars to find their location. 
• A small, fast ship. 
• A tool that shows which direction is North. 
• None of the above. 

By the time the period of European exploration began, most maps included the Americas.

• True

• False

Vasco de Gama led voyages of explorations for Spain.

• True

• False

Who was the first explorer to realize that South America was not part of Asia?

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Ferdinand Magellan

Whose crew was the first to circumnavigate the world?

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Ferdinand Magellan