vocabulary for Explorers

The ___________ conditions in Antarctica make survival very difficult

• wonderful

• severe

• strange

• curious

skins of fur-bearing animals

• fuzzies

• incisors

• pelts

• allies

The famous explorer wrote a(n) ______________ about his own life.

• autobiography

• monopoly

• biography

• epidemic

A(n)___________ is a type of disease that spreads quickly and affects many people at the same time.

• pelt

• cultivate

• profitable

• epidemic

the World's largest island, located northeast of North America

• Sweden

• Greenland

• Indiana

• Mexico

Cultivate means ___________

• grow

• stand up

• sleep

• difficult

If something is very __________, it means it makes a lot of money

• thankful

• wasteful

• profitable

• severe

North and South America used to be described as the _____ ______.

• Easterners

• Outback

• New World

• North Pole

______ _____ is a disease that is easily spread to other people, causing fever, weakness, and pus filled bumps that usually leave scars.

• red rover

• high jumps

• New World

• small pox

The _________ ______ is the northern most end of the Earth.

• North Pole

• New World

• Out Back

• Far East