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Early Explorers
Social Studies PRES 4th Grade
Term | Definition |
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Explore | to search for new things and places |
Cartography | map making skills |
Navigation | the science sailors use to plot their course and find their location far from land |
Profit | money a business has left over after it has paid all its costs |
Caravel | a smaller, faster ship with triangular sails that could sail into the wind |
Horizon | the line at which the earth's surface and the sky appear to meet |
Compass | an instrumentfor dtermining directions |
Celestial Stars | Relating to the Sky (the sun, moon, and stars are celestial bodies) |
Economics | the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services |
Political | the activities, actions, and policies that are used to gain and hold power in a government or influence a government |
Techonology | Use of Scientific knowledge or new tools to make or do something |
Competition | the act or process of trying to get or win something others are also trying to get or win |
Colonization | to establish a colony |
Conquistador | Spanish word for conquerors who came to the Americas in the 1500s |