Vocabulary Exploring the Americas

A region belonging to or controlled by a government or ruler

• voyage

• treaty

• horizon

• territory

a narrow channel connecting two larger bodies of water

• strait

• reform

• latitude

• voyage

a withering disease of plants with eventual tissue death

• horizon

• infected

• blight

• strait

finding one's position and plotting a course especially on the water

• navigation

• latitude

• entrepreneur

• horizon

the farthest visible point where sky and earth or water seem to meet

• navigation

• territory

• horizon

• blight

a formal contract or agreement between political entities approved and signed by authorized representatives of a country

• circumnavigate

• territory

• treaty

• voyage

One of Earth's 7 great land masses

• continent

• circumnavigate

• reform

• expedition

location or point north or south from the equator, measured in degrees

• navigation

• latitude

• territory

• continent

to sail or travel completely around something

• expedition

• horizon

• circumnavigate

• astrolabe

An extended journey by ship especially by sea but also in space

• blight

• expeditions

• voyage

• navigation