California Explorers Review

Match the following

• discovered a sea passage between the Artic and Pacific Oceans

• Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo

• first European in California

• Sir Francis Drake

• made detailed maps of the California coast

• Vitus Bering

• first English explorer to circle the Earth

• Hernan Cortes

• explored the California coastline

• Sebastian Vizcaino

Who mapped the coast from California to the Artic Circle?

• Sebastian Vizcaino

• Vitus Bering

• James Cook

• Sir Francis Drake

​ ​ A ​ (a)   was used to find latitude and longitude.

• sextant
• astrolabe
• quadrant

A ​ (a)   was used to find altitude.

• quadrant
• sextant
• astrolabe

An ​ (a)   finds latitude.

• astrolabe
• quadrant
• sextant

What was trade developed between Asia, America, and Europe called?

• the Silk Road

• the Bering Strait

• the Northwest Passage

• the Colombian Exchange

True or False: All meetings between Europeans and California American Indians were violent.

• True

• False

What new animal changed the way American Indians hunted and traveled?

• cow

• dog

• horse

• pig

Which crop is native to the Americas?

• barley

• oats

• potatoes

• wheat

What created the slave trade in the Americas?

• labor intense crops started being grown and the demand for free labor increased

• diseases made many people sick