Explorers Vocabulary

someone who travels to unknown places usually in search of something valuable or treasures like gold, silk, or jewels

• sponsor

• explorer

• navigator

a person who was born in the country in which he or she currently lives

• native

• European

• explorer

a person, country, or nation that agrees to pay for a project or activity in exchange for new information, land, or valuables

• navigator

• mutiny

• sponsor

the person in charge of plotting and directing the course of a voyage

• navigator

• new world

• native

the name sometimes used for Canada and North America

• Voyage

• Explorer

• New World

a trip by water or over land

• New World

• voyage

• obstacle

something that gets in the way or makes it hard to do something

• mutiny

• native

• obstacle

a person raised or living in Europe

• Native

• European

• Explorer

an occasion when a group of people especially soldiers or sailors neglect to obey orders and revolt against authority

• mutiny

• obstacle

• navigator