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Early Explorers

Authored by Jessica Reed

English

3rd Grade

CCSS covered

Used 4+ times

Early Explorers
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is a person who travels looking for new lands and discoveries called?

astronaut

explorer

detective

doctor

Tags

CCSS.RF.2.3E

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the course you take to get somewhere called?

Many explorers in the past tried to find a __________ to Asia.

motive

claim

route

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What ocean did European Explorers go across trying to find a water route to Asia?

Atlantic Ocean

Pacific Ocean

Arctic Ocean

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why did early European Explorers want to find a way to go to Asia quicker?

For spices & herbs

For gold

For silk

All of the above

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What Italian explorer was sent by Spain in 1492 to sail to China in search of spices?

Jean Nicolet

Christopher Columbus

Amerigo Vespucci

Louis Jolliet

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who was Christopher Columbus?

a mapmaker who landed in China

an explorer who sailed to India

an explorer who reached the Americas

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

After Christopher Columbus set up a settlement on the island called Hispaniola, this changed the lives of the group already living there. What was the name of that native group?

Cherokee

Iroquois

Taino

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

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