Unit 2 - Explorers Test

Test Description: Explorers Unit

Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.

1) During the 1400 - 1600s, these people were sent out to explore new lands.

2) A device that helped explorers know which direction they were sailing in.

3) The first people to live in North America.

4) A time in history when Europeans learned about new lands and waterways on the Earth.

5) Items that have been found and put into a museum from the explorers in the 1400s.

6) An illness caused by a lack of nutrients in the body.

7) What is the name of the continent that started the Age of Exploration?

8) What important resource did Europeans trade guns and weapons for in the New World?

9) This early settlement was known as The Lost Colony and it remains a mystery what really happened to all the colonists there.

10) This colony was the first permanent English settlement in North America.

11) This colony was settled by the pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower and this was where the first Thanksgiving was celebrated in our country.

12) Where is the explorer, Jacques Cartier explore for and what place did he discover?

13) Where is the explorer, Christopher Columbus explore for and what place did he discover?

14) Where is the explorer, Henry Hudson explore for and what place did he discover?

15) Where is the explorer, Samuel de Champlain explore for and what place did he discover?

16) Where is the explorer, Giovanni de Verrazzano explore for and what place did he discover?

17) Name the 4 main countries where explorers came from during the Age of Exploration.

18) Reasons for the Age of Exploration --- What were explorers looking for?

19) What skills did an explorer need to have in order to be successful?


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