Explorers Test Flashcards
Who was an American explorer who traveled to the North Pole in the 1900s?
Robert Peary
Who flew across the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean and disappeared while flying, and explored in the early 1900s?
Amelia Earhart
_______ was a French explorer who explored in the mid 1500s, found the St.Lawrence River, and explored Canada (Canada was called New France at the time)
Jacques Cartier
______ was a Spanish explorer who explored around the early 1500s and went looking for the City of Gold in Mexico.
Hernando Cortes
________ was s French explorer who explored in the late 1600s and named Louisiana.
Robert de LaSalle
_____ was a French explorer who has a lake named after him and explored Canada in the early 1600s.
Samuel de Champlain
_______ was an American explorer who explored in the late 1700s and early 1800s and made the wilderness road Kentucky.
Daniel Boone
________ explored in 1983 and was the first American woman astronaut to fly to space.
Sally Ride
______ was an Italian explorer who sailed to South America and has America named after him
Amerigo Vespucci
_____ was was a Spanish explorer who explored the late 1400s and the early 1500s, went to look for the Fountain of Youth, and named Florida.
Juan Ponce de Leon
______ was a n American astronaut who explored in 1969, went to the moon, and whose famous words were,”One small step for man. One giant leap for man kind.”
Neil Armstrong
________ was an explorer in the 16th century, which would be the 1500. He/She went to the southwest part of the United States looking for the seven cities of gold.
Francisco Coronado
Who explored in the early 1600s , and has s river, bay, and stream named after him?
Henry Hudson
_____ was an English explorer trying to find a route to Asia and sailed the coast of North America.
John Cabot
_______- was a Native American who was a guide for Lewis & Clark. She went through the Pacific Northwest.
Sacajawea
_______ explored around 1000 and sailed from Europe to North Canada.
Leif Ericson
Who was sent by French in the early 1500s to find gold and a Northwest passage to Asia, and sailed along the Atlantic coast of North America?
Geovanni de Verrazano
________ was an American explorer who explored around the early 1800s and explored the Pacific Northwest.
Lewis and Clark
Who traveled down the Mississippi River?
Marquette and Jolliet
________ was the first person to circumnavigate the world to try to find a route to Asia.
Ferdinand Magellan
Robert Peary was a(n) ________ explorer.
American
Robert Peary explored the ______
North Pole
Robert Peary explored during the ______
1900s
Amelia Earhart flew across the ______ and ______ oceans
Atlantic
Pacific
______ disappeared while flying across the Pacific
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart explored during the
Early 1900s
Jacques Cartier was a(n) ________ explorer.
French
