Explorers
Vocabulary
Dates
America and Africa
Trivia
100
What was Columbus looking for and what did he find?
What is the east Indies and found the West Indies
100
the science of plotting and controlling a ship
What is navigation
100
it is a spatial form.
What is a shape?
100
the author's intent to either inform, teach, persuade, entertain or express feelings.
What is author's purpose?
100
standard symbols used to clarify meaning in a sentence
What is punctuation?
200
How did the Portuguese sailors reach Asia?
by sailing around of southern tip of Africa
200
a story handed down from earlier times
What is a legend?
200
a figure that has 3 dimensions and takes up space
What is a solid figure?
200
although untrue it represents something that could really happen.
What is realistic fiction?
200
an incomplete sentence
What is a fragment?
300
Why was Columbus unwilling to believe he had landed on a new continent?
he didn't know the Americas existed
300
attacked by surprise.
What is an ambush
300
a quadrilateral that has exactly one pair of parallel sides.
What is a trapezoid?
300
something that is foretold.
What is a prediction?
300
a group of letters or letter placed after a word to modify its meaning
What is a suffix?
400
How did Cortes defeat the Aztec Empire?
using his soldiers and natives from the land
400
the spread of disease among many people.
What is an epidemic
400
a closed figure made up of line segments.
What is a polygon?
400
the time and place of a story.
What is the setting?
400
a shortened version of a passage that highlights key points
What is a summary?
500
What did Magellan accomplish?
he completed the first European circumnavigation
500
this part of a sentence that tells what the subject is doing
What is the predicate?
500
a flat closed figure with 4 straight sides
What is a quadrilateral?
500
a story written using facts and events about a person's life.
What is a biography?
500
a group of letters that is placed at the front of a word to alter its meaning
What is a prefix?
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