Code Words
Exploration
Geography
England/Italy
Spain/Portugal
100
Freedom
What is liberty?
100
This merchant traveled to China and wrote about the wonders he had seen there.
Who is Marco Polo?
100
The most heavily traveled ocean.
What is Atlantic Ocean?
100
The King of England during John Cabot's time.
Who is King Henry VII?
100
Balboa called the Pacific Ocean _______?
What is the Great South Sea?
200
Ocean
What is the largest bodies of water?
200
This explorer sailed around the tip of Africa to India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
200
The second largest continent.
What is Africa?
200
An English mapmaker who claimed the land of America for England.
Who is John Cabot?
200
This explorer set out to find the Fountain of Youth.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
300
Geography
What is the study of the earth's surface?
300
The first Viking to visit America
Who is Leif Ericson?
300
The ocean that separates Europe and North America.
What is Atlantic Ocean?
300
America was named after this man.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
400
Devotion or loyalty
What is allegiance?
400
This explorer discovered the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Vasco de Balboa?
400
The smallest ocean.
What is Arctic Ocean?
400
This explorer was trying to find India but found discovered something else instead.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
400
This Portuguese explorer first sailed around Africa to get to Asia.
Who is Vasco de Gama?
500
A large mass of land
What is continent?
500
This place was discovered by Juan Ponce de Leon.
What is Florida?
500
Name the 7 continents and the 4 oceans.
What is North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia, and Africa? What is Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Arctic Ocean?
500
What happened on October 12, 1492?
Columbus discovered America.
500
The king and Queen of Spain who helped financed Columbus's voyage to the New World.
Who is Ferdinand and Isabella?
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