Exploration Vocabulary-Key

Fill in the blank: The act of traveling to new lands to discover and learn about unknown places is called __________.

• Exploration

• Migration

• Colonization

• Vacation

A person who plans and directs the course of a ship, often using maps, stars, and instruments is called a __________.

• Navigator

• Captain

• Sailor

• Engineer

A small, fast sailing ship used by European explorers in the 15th and 16th centuries is called a __________.

• Caravel

• Galleon

• Frigate

• Sloop

A tool used by sailors to measure the position of the sun and stars to help determine latitude is called an __________.

• Astrolabe

• Sextant

• Compass

• Chronometer

The widespread transfer of plants, animals, people, diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres following Columbus's voyages is called the __________.

• Columbian Exchange

• Silk Road Exchange

• Atlantic Trade

• Global Swap

A Spanish soldier and explorer who conquered lands in the Americas for Spain is called a __________.

• Conquistador

• Viceroy

• Missionary

• Cartographer

To travel all the way around the world, often by ship is to __________.

• Circumnavigate

• Navigate

• Orbit

• Traverse

Match the term 'Indigenous' with its definition.

• Native to a particular region

• Existing naturally in a particular environment

• Belonging to a particular culture or ethnicity

• Belonging to a particular culture or ethnicity

• Relating to the original inhabitants of a place

• Native to a particular region

• Existing naturally in a particular environment

• Relating to the original inhabitants of a place

What is the purpose of an astrolabe?

• Allows the wind to hit both sides, unlike its competitor the box sail

• To point the user in the direction they are traveling, according to true north

• To tell the latitude

• An account of the stars and constellations

an instrument containing a magnetized pointer that shows the direction of magnetic north and bearings from it.

• astrolabe

• caravel

• compass

• lateen sail