Age of Discovery & Exploration Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. a map maker
  2. 4. Spanish conquerors/explorers who sailed to the Americas to obtain gold, silver, and other treasures.
  3. 6. a device that always points north. It is used for navigation.
  4. 9. a method of navigating by using the stars or other objects in the sky
  5. 10. a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C
  6. 11. instrument used to calculate positions of celestial bodies
  7. 14. a design on a map that shows direction. It points which way is north, south, east, west, and some intermediate directions on the map.
  8. 15. strong easterly winds that blow through the tropics and subtropics
  9. 16. to travel around the entire Earth (or around another given object).
  10. 18. a belt of very still air near the equator that stalled sailing ships.
Down
  1. 1. a unit of speed used on the water.
  2. 2. the study and the construction of maps
  3. 5. an astronomical instrument that is used to determine latitude for navigation
  4. 7. a very accurate time-keeping device that is used for determining one’s longitude at sea.
  5. 8. a journey to some distant place
  6. 12. a type of two- or three-masted sailing ship developed in the 1400s by the Portuguese
  7. 13. a type of map in which the true compass direction are kept intact (lines of latitude and longitude intersect at right angles), but areas are distorted
  8. 17. an instrument used to measure altitude