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European Explorers
European Explorers & Australia
Australia during convict times
Australia's Geography
Challenge!
100
The first European explorer to discover America
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
The Endeavour
What was James Cook's ship?
100
Brought the European convicts over to Australia
Who is Captain Arthur Phillip?
100
Environment (land) in Australia that is open, flat and very green and grassy.
What are are the grasslands?
100
The year that Queen Elizabeth sent Raleigh to set up the first North American colony.
What is the year 1584?
200
A young merchant and explorer who traveled from Venice, Italy to China around the year 1280.
Who is Macro Polo
200
Discovered the WESTERN coast of Australia
Who is Dirk Hartog?
200
Deadly disease that the convicts brought over to Australia with them
What is smallpox?
200
Environment (land) in Australia that has very steep hills and cliffs.
What are the mountains?
200
The place in America where the Pilgrims first landed.
What is Cape Cod?
300
The ship that the pilgrims sailed on to get to America for religious freedom.
What is the Mayflower?
300
A deadly disease that many crew members died from while sailing and working on board (hint: caused by not enough vitamin C).
What is scurvy?
300
The very first people to live in Australia
Who are the Aborigines?
300
Environment (land) in Australia that is very dry, brown, and open.
What is the desert?
300
A book that we use to find the coordinate grid location of different places.
What is an atlas?
400
The longest trade route on land. It goes all the way through China!
What is the Silk Road?
400
The Botanist on James Cook's ship (The Endeavour)
Who is Joseph Banks
400
A certain (and very small) amount of food and clothing given to the convicts once a week (hint: starts with an 'r')
What is a ration?
400
Environment (land) in Australia that has many trees, branches, leaves, and shade.
What are the woodlands?
400
We use this to keep track (measure) important events that have happened in our history. It keeps track of important dates/events and arranges them from the earliest to the latest (most recent).f
What is a timeline?
500
1) Wealth ($$$$$) 2) Religion 3)Knowledge 4) Adventure
Why did the early Europeans decide to explore? (hint: four reasons -- we put them in our journals)!
500
European explorer who has credit for discovering eastern Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, and Hawaii
Who is James Cook?
500
Wandering lifestyle; follow the weather and food from place to place (hint the Aboriginals lived this lifestyle).
What is the Nomadic lifestyle?
500
The study of people and places all around the world
What is geography?
500
Draw a timeline with three early European explorers and the dates that they explored (note: these dates should be accurate and in the correct order).
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