Age of Exploration Vocabulary Pre Test

1) Sailing completely around something, such as the world

• cross-staff
• Triangle Trade
• Northwest Passage
• circumnavigation

2) The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.

• Columbian Exchange
• Triangle Trade
• Northwest Passage

3) An instrument used by sailors to determine their location by observing the position of the stars and planets

• caravel
• cross-staff
• quadrant
• astrolabe

4) A fan-shaped magnetic object that measured the altitude of stars, the moon, and the sun in orderto determine the latitude of a ship.

• cartography
• astrolabe
• quadrant
• caravel

5) A trade route that exchanged goods between the West Indies, the American colonies, and WestAfrica

• Northwest Passage
• Triangle Trade
• Columbian Exchange

6) A Spanish conqueror of the Americas

• Triangle Trade
• cross-staff
• Conquistador
• cartography

7) The science or art of making maps

• astrolabe
• cross-staff
• circumnavigation
• cartography

8) A water route between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans along the northern coast of NorthAmerica

• Triangle Trade
• Northwest Passage
• Columbian Exchange

9) An instrument that calculates latitude using how high the sun is above the horizon

• cross-staff
• astrolabe
• caravel
• quadrant

10) To give a person or group the money that is needed to pay for an activity

• conquistador
• sponsor
• astrolabe
• collegiate