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Exploration terms

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is navigation?

a)

the science of planning and following a route

b)

a person who sets up and runs a business

c)

to gain or receive good results from something

d)

A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas

2.

A name for the Americas during the time of European exploration and colonization

a)

Profit

b)

New World

c)

Religious Freedom

d)

God, Gold, and Glory

3.

A person who explores an unknown place

a)

Explorer

b)

Cash Crop

c)

God, Gold, and Glory

d)

New World

4.
Map making skills that helped explorers to share their knowledge with others 
a)
expedition
b)
cartography
c)
competition
d)
navigation
5.
The science sailors used to plot their course and find their location far from land
a)
expedition
b)
cartography
c)
competition
d)
navigation
6.
Relating to money, trading, and jobs
a)
expedition
b)
economics
c)
political
d)
navigation
7.
Conqueror
a)
expedition
b)
economics
c)
conquistador
d)
monarch
8.
A settlement far from the country that it rules 
a)
expedition
b)
economics
c)
colony
d)
monarch
9.

Spanish soldier-explorers, especially those who conquered the native peoples of Mexico and Peru.

a)

Conquistador

b)

Missionaries

c)

Coureurs de Bois

d)

Covert

10.

Definition- A sea passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific along the north coast of North America.

a)

Conquistador

b)

Circumnavigate

c)

Northwest Passage

d)

Culture

11.

Definition- To travel completely around something, usually by water.

a)

Conquistador

b)

Circumnavigate

c)

Northwest Passage

d)

Culture

12.
Which of the following helped explorers determine latitude from the position of the sun, moon, and stars?
a)
compass
b)
caravel
c)
astrolabe