Explorers Test
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Who explored the Arctic Circle? | John Cabot
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| Who explored the West Indies (cuba, Haiti)? | Christopher Columbus
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| Who sailed around the world? | Ferdinand Magellan
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| Who explored New York and parts of Canada? | Henry Hudson
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| Who explored the Southeastern United States? | Hernando de Soto
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| Who explored Newfoundland in Canada? | Leif Eriksson
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| Who explored the Mississippi River from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico? | Robert LaSalle
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| What does circumnavigate mean? | To sail completely around the world.
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| What is the waterway that explorers where looking for that passed through North America? | The Northwest Passage
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| How many years passed between Eriksson's discovery of North America and the first voyage of Columbus? | 500 years
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| What is a device used for measuring altitude? | Astrolabe
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| Who sponsored Hudson's voyages? | England and the Netherlands
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| What did LaSalle name the land along the Mississippi River that her claimed for France? | Louisiana
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| When did Columbus make his first voyage to North America? | 1492
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| Which ship was small, light, and fast? | Caravel
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| Which ship was big, heavy, and slow? | Carrack
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| Which two explorers reached North America but thought they were in the Indies? | Christopher Columbus and John Cabot
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| What did Hernando de Soto find in South America? | Gold
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| Why was Magellan given credit for being the first person to sail around the world? | He was the leader of the crew that completed the voyage.
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| What are the 3 reasons for exploration? | God, Gold, and Glory
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