Exploration Vocabulary

Explorers from northern Europe that sailed to North America over 1,000 years ago.

• Vikings

• Native Americans

• Americans

• French

To travel in an unfamiliar area in order to learn about it

• Extermination
• Exploration
• Exaggeration
• Exploitation

Relating to the government

• Governmental
• Public
• State
• Political

someone who buys and sells goods to make money

• Consumer
• Merchant

• Trader
• Investor

the money a business has left over after all expenses have been paid

• Loss
• Revenue
• Debt
• Profit

the use of knowledge, skills, and tools to do things better and more quickly

• Inefficiency
• Technology

• Effectiveness
• Efficiency

The science of planning and controlling the direction of a ship

• sailing
• steering
• shipbuilding
• navigation

a tool that measures the height of the sun or a star above the horizon

• altimeter
• barometer
• astrolabe

• compass

an unexpected meeting between people

• encounter

• chance
• accident
• coincidence

trading of objects or ideas

• Barter
• Transaction
• Trade
• Exchange