vocabulary
What a ship is carrying.
What is cargo?
This is the length of a typical shift.
What is 4 hours?
Wanting to do something, just because you like to push yourself.
What is a challenge?
This person may use a compass, astrolabe or chart to do their job.
What is the navigator?
Europeans learned about _____ from Native Americans, which greatly improved their sleeping conditions.
What is hammocks?
Wanted.
What is yearned?
A sailor might be asked to pump water out of this part of a ship.
What is the bilge?
Spain and England fought for land to colonize.
What is competition?
If you contract dysentery, scurvy or typhus, you may seek help from this individual.
Who is the surgeon?
Despite being superstitious, sailors were quite ____________. Days often began and ended with services.
What is religious?
When a crew overthrows the captain.
What is a mutiny?
These are some of the benefits of hardtack.
What is won't spoil and hard for bugs to get into?
Karana was baptized by the monks who found her on Island of the Blue Dolphins.
What is conversion?
The helmsmen steer the ship according to the information given by which role?
What is the navigator?
Sometimes a firebox was used on deck to cook food, however most meals were eaten _____.
What is cold?
Sailors could suffer from a variety of sicknesses. Name 2.
What is dysentery, typhus or scurvy?
If the sun was especially hot, a sailor may be asked to do this so that the wood did not dry out and splinter.
What is wet the deck?
Taking something because you have more power. The Spanish were especially into this C.
What conquest?
This person needs to have good negotiation skills since they are a link between the captain and crew.
What is the boatswain?
These are some of the items that sailors may have eaten on a journey. (3)
What is hardtack, oatmeal, bacon, dried meat, dried fruit, dried peas, and cheese?
This is the name for a period of no wind.
What is a dead calm?
The captain may ask you to climb the ________ in order to re-tie some ropes.
What is rigging?
Today, you might go to a shopping mall if you wanted to engage in this C.
What is commerce?
This person must be organized since they are responsible for storing supplies.
Who is the Steward?
If there was no rainwater to collect, sailors would consume this.
What is beer and wine?