Native American Regions
The Native American region that we live in (in New York)
Eastern Woodlands
The name of the man that sailed the ocean blue in 1492.
Christopher Columbus
How many continents do we have on the Earth?
7
A ship designed for long voyages. It was created by the Portuguese.
Caravel
The Native American group that lived in a desert climate.
Southwestern Pueblo
The person that circumnavigated the world. (He died but his crew completed the journey.)
Ferdinand Magellan
The ocean that is on the Eastern side of North America.
Atlantic Ocean
An instrument used to tell you what direction you're going in. It uses earth's magnetic field to find true north.
Magnetic Compass
The Native American region where people hunted and lived off of bison.
Great Plains
The explorer that founded schools to help teach people to read the stars for directions and make accurate maps.
Henry the Navigator
The ocean on the West side of North America.
Pacific Ocean.
The instrument that measures the angle of the stars or sun above the horizon to find your latitude.
Astrolabe.
The people that lived in the Artic/Subartic hunted this animal for food and to make tents for shelter in the summer.
Caribou
America was named after this Italian explorer and mapmaker.
Amerigo Vespucci
Name one of the major mountain ranges in North America.
Appalachian Mountains or Rocky Mountains
The place that Christopher Columbus believed he found when he landed in Haiti.
India
The alliance made between 5 tribes that lived in the Eastern Woodland region.
Iroquois League
The explorer that was looking for the Fountain of Youth, but found Florida instead.
Juan Ponce de Leon
The continents that are part of the "New World"
North America and South America.
The name of the sail on a Caravel that was triangular in shape and made the Caravel a fast ship that could sail in any direction.
Lateen sail