Age of Discovery
Cristoforo Colombo
I'm not so Wavy Gravy after all!
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Potpourri
100
Name the first explorer to circumnavigate the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
100
Columbus was from this European nation, although he sailed for Spain.
What is Italy?
100
The distance between two corresponding parts of a wave.
What is a wavelength?
100
The name for the low point on a transverse wave.
What is a trough?
100
Europeans wanted to bring this religion to the Native Americans.
What is Christianity?
200
He was famous for his interest in navigation and he financed many explorations.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
200
Columbus thought he had landed in this Asian country.
What is India?
200
A type of wave in which the disturbance moves in the same direction that the waves travels.
What is a compressional/longitudinal wave?
200
The high point on a transverse wave.
What is a crest?
200
Name the main reason Africans were imported as slaves and Native Americans were not used as slaves.
What is disease?
300
He was the first person to sail around Africa to India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
300
Columbus' voyages were financed by this royal couple.
Who are Ferdinand and Isabella?
300
A repeated back and forth or up and down motion.
What is a vibration?
300
This part of the wave affects loudness or volume.
What is amplitude?
300
The Japanese name for a huge wave caused by underwater earthquakes.
What is tsunami?
400
Name the Spanish conquistador that conquered the Incan Empire.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
400
Columbus set sail on his voyage across the Atlantic in this year.
What is 1492?
400
Name the material through which a wave travels.
What is a medium?
400
The part of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are close together.
What is a compression?
400
He claimed the Pacific Ocean for Spain.
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
500
This disease that killed countless Native Americans was carried to the New World by Europeans.
What is smallpox?
500
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Name the three ships of Columbus' first voyage.
What are the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
500
Waves bouncing back after hitting a barrier is called this.
What is reflection?
500
The part of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are pulled apart.
What is a rarefaction?
500
Waves do not transport this.
What is matter?