23-24 Explorers Vocabulary and Unit Test

The act of traveling through an unfamiliar area to learn about it

• navigation
• obstacle
• exploration
• strait

A meeting with a person or thing

• encounter
• cooperation
• navigation
• accomplishment

The reason someone takes action or acts a certain way

• motivation
• obstacle
• interaction
• encounter

The science of finding a way from one place to another, especially on a ship

• conquistador
• navigation
• accomplishment
• exploration

A thing that blocks one's way or stands in the way of progress

• obstacle
• acomplishment
• scarce
• exploration

Not easy to find or get

• exploration
• interaction
• cooperation
• scarce

An achievement or success

• purpose
• navigation
• accomplishment
• encounter

A soldier during the 16th and 17th centuries who defeated indigenous people in the Americas and took their land for Spain

• explorer
• conquistador
• encounter
• interaction

What Europeans called the continents of North America and South America after they found them

• Land
• encounter
• New World
• cooperation

A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water

• Strait
• New World
• Ocean
• River