SS75 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
What did Marquette and Joliet explore? | upper Mississippi River |
What did Jacque Cartier explore? | St. Lawrence River |
What did Hernando Cortes explore and conquer? | Mexico |
What did Vasco Nunez de Balboa explore and claim for Spain? | Isthmus of Panama |
What area of South America was explored by Amerigo Vespucci? | northern coast of South America |
What area of the Americas was explored by John Cabot? | east coast of North America |
What region did Samuel de Champlain explore? | Great Lakes |
What modern-day country was first explored by Pedro Cabral? | Brazil |
What was explored and named by Ponce de Leon? | Florida |
What area of South America was conquered by Francisco Pizarro? | Peru |
What is the name of the narrow channel found at the tip of South America? It connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. | Strait of Magellan |
The New World is completely located in what hemisphere? | Western |
What two continents make up the New World? | North America and South America |
Where did Christopher Columbus think he had landed? | East Indies |
What continent(s) lies across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe? | North and South America |
Name two islands, once claimed by Vikings, which some explorers sailed past on their way to America. | Iceland and Greenland |
What ocean is located between Africa, Asia and Australia? | Indian |
What were the early European explorers looking for? | A passage to Asia |
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