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Exploration and Navigation Quiz

Authored by Robert Carpenter

Social Studies

7th Grade

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Exploration and Navigation Quiz
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the act of traveling to new lands to discover and learn about unknown places called?

Navigation

Exploration

Circumnavigation

Conquest

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who is a person that plans and directs the course of a ship, often using maps, stars, and instruments?

Conquistador

Explorer

Navigator

Captain

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is a small, fast sailing ship used by European explorers in the 15th and 16th centuries called?

Caravel

Astrolabe

Galleon

Frigate

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What tool is used by sailors to measure the position of the sun and stars to help determine latitude?

Sextant

Compass

Astrolabe

Telescope

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What term describes the widespread transfer of plants, animals, people, diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres following Columbus's voyages?

Global Exchange

Columbian Exchange

Atlantic Trade

Silk Road

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who was a Spanish soldier and explorer who conquered lands in the Americas for Spain?

Navigator

Conquistador

Explorer

Merchant

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What does it mean to travel all the way around the world, often by ship?

Exploration

Navigation

Circumnavigate

Voyage

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