Explorers Journal Review

The time period in history when many European countries sent out explorers is referred to as what?

• The Age of Exploration

• The Age of Europeans

• The Age of Explorers

• The Age of Native Americans

What is an explorer?

• a person who travels in search of new places and information

• an illness caused by a lack of nutrients in the body

• a person who builds things

• an object made by people in the past

What tool helped explorers to know which direction they were facing?

• astrolabe

• compass

• beaver fur

• sandglass

The first group of people to live in a specific area are called:

• explorers

• natives

• colonials

• trading posts

True or False: an artifact is a type of ship.

• True

• False

What is scurvy?

• an illness that causes you to need glasses

• an illness caused by a lack of nutrients in the body

• an illness that causes your bones to break

The following are skills an explorer would need to know EXCEPT:

• read a map

• read and write

• use a compass

• how to skin a beaver

The 4 MAIN countries that sent out explorers to the new world were: Spain, England, and what two others?

• Netherlands

• France

• Germany

• Scotland

True or False: Europeans were looking for a quick way to get to Asia.

• True

• False

Finding a quicker way to Asia, spices, and trading were all reasons for exploration, which of the following is another?

• to find gold, silver, and jewels

• to find beavers

• to find the Native Americans