USA Studies Weekly Week #5: Early Explorers

Henry the Navigator was in search of _____________.

• spices

• gold

• ships

• fountain of youth

Another word for a diary

• book

• journal

• newspaper

• article

The study of planets and stars

• photography

• oceanography

• paleontology

• astronomy

A group of ships traveling together

• caravel

• Pinta

• fleet

• maroon

To be stranded

• orphaned

• plundered

• marooned

• confused

Imaginary line that goes around the Earth

• hemisphere

• equator

• eclipse

• equinox

Another name for a mapmaker

• photographer

• oceanographer

• cartographer

• navigator

A large amount of treasure

• booty

• mother lode

• bushel

• peck

A skilled sailor

• cartographer

• navigator

• photographer

• oceanographer

Spanish coins, pieces of ________

• eight

• eighteen

• seven

• eleven