Whe 5Th Grade Ch 4

Front 1

A proud signal to mark new land claims

Back 1

Flag

Front 2

Drawings of the shapes of bodies of land and water

Back 2

Maps

Front 3

Europeans counted wealth in ________.

Back 3

In Gold and Silver

Front 4

Ships carried this wealth back to _________.

Back 4

Spain

Front 5

At first. Europeans wouldn't eat ______ but later they became a part of the Europeans' diet?

Back 5

Tomatoes

Front 6

15th and 16th Century Explorers used an Astrolabe to _____________?

Back 6

Find their position when they sailed to or from the New Lands

Front 7

A __________ tells which direction a ship is headed even when it sailed through fog or in total darkness.

Back 7

Compass

Front 8

Explorers used 2 improved navigation tools, _____________ and ____________ to reach and explore new lands .

Back 8

Compass, Astrolabe

Front 9

Why was the New World not necessarily "new"?

Back 9

The Native Americans had lived there for thousands of years.

Front 10

Throughout the Americas, explorers found people growing a tall, leafy plant called ___________.

Back 10

Tobacco

Front 11

Explorers wanted to convert local people to the _____________ religion.

Back 11

Christianity

Front 12

The _________ helped spread Christianity to native people.

Back 12

Bible

Front 13

People who travel to new and unfamiliar places in order to learn what these places are like and describe them with words, pictures and maps are called_______.

Back 13

Explorers

Front 14

The Age of Exploration began in the __________ and continued throughout the _____________

Back 14

late 1400's (1492), 1500's

Front 15

One theory of how people first arrived in North America is called the _________________.

Back 15

Land Bridge Theory

Front 16

Scientists believe there was once a "bridge" of land between ____________ and ___________________.

Back 16

Asia, North America

Front 17

Scientists called this land bridge ________________.

Back 17

Beringia

Front 18

This land bridge was named for the body of water ______________________.

Back 18

Bering Strait

Front 19

This body of water now separates ______________ from ___________________.

Back 19

Russia, Alaska

Front 20

Many scientists believe that (# years ago) ____________ there were several ________________.

Back 20

Thousands, Ice Ages

Front 21

An ________________ is a long period of freezing cold, leaving _____________________to cover large parts of the earth.

Back 21

Ice Age, glaciers

Front 22

Scientists believe that so much of Earth's water was trapped in these huge _______ that the level of the oceans fell by as much as ______________.

Back 22

glaciers, 350 ft

Front 23

Water being trapped and the ocean levels falling meant that the Earth had (choose) More/Less dry land than it does now.

Back 23

More

Front 24

Many scientists believe that (#) ______________ years ago, groups of hunters and their families crossed the land bridge from _____________ to _____________.

Back 24

12,000; Asia; North America

Front 25

Did this migration likely take place quickly or slowly?

Back 25

Slowly