Explorers and Missionaries Vocabulary Quiz

Match the following

• allies

• groups of people who come together to help one another in times of trouble

• scurvy

• a member of the Christian church who traces his or her history to the twelve apostles

• navigation

• controlling the direction of a ship

• Catholic

• a disease caused from lack of Vitamin C that results in bleeding and extreme weakness

Match the following

• autobiography

• stories of a person's life written by themselves

• epidemic

• a dangerous disease that causes fever and bumps all over the skin

• small pox

• a type of disease that spreads quickly and affects many people at the same time

• defend

• to keep safe from danger, attack , or harm

Match the following

• Strait of Magellan

• types of churches

• expedition

• stories of a person's life written by someone else

• missions

• a narrow strip of sea that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans near the southern tip of South America

• biographies

• a journey for the purpose of exploring

Match the following

• fertilized

• a term used once used to describe the continents of North America and South America

• New World

• a trick

• fleet

• large group of ships

• hoax

• rich soil that produces a large number of crops

Match the following

• empire

• a group of territories or people under one ruler

• sacrificed

• winning victory

• defeating

• killed an animal or human being as a spiritual offering

• emperor

• the male ruler of an empire

Match the following

• tanning

• usual ways of doing things

• customs

• the process of soaking animal hides in a solution to turn them into leather

• kidnapped

• a title given to a man who has done something very special for England

• knight

• took a person without permission

Match the following

• sculptures

• figures or designs shaped out of clay, marble, or metal

• ransom

• people who design buildings

• Christianity

• a religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ

• architects

• money paid for the safe return of a person who has been taken without permission

Match the following

• engineers

• scientists who are skilled at building mines, ships, buildings, bridges, and chemical plants

• blacksmithing

• a fat produced by heating fatty tissues of cattle and sheep; used for making candles and soap

• tallow

• heating and hammering iron into different shapes

• rancherias

• a small village of Native American settlements