social studies chapter 1

Who was the Italian sailor who discovered America in 1492?

• Amerigo Vespucci
• Christopher Columbus
• Marco Polo
• Vasco da Gama

A large mass of land is called_______

• ocean
• mountain
• river
• continent

What do we call people who study the earth?

• geographers

• zoologists
• biologists
• astronomers

Who was the first European to visit America?

• Marco Polo
• Christopher Columbus
• Leif Erikson
• Amerigo Vespucci

The story of what has happened in the life of a country or people

• geography
• math
• history
• science

Merchant who visited China and described its riches to Europe

• Marco Polo
• Christopher Columbus
• Genghis Khan
• Leonardo da Vinci

There are seven continents

• true

• false

The continent of Asia is responsible for the settlement of the New World.

• true

• false

The continent Columbus was trying to discover was Australia

• true

• false

The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean

• true

• false