World Explorers - Assessment

1.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

During the Age of Discovery, the reason explorers went exploring was for...

Gold

Glory

God

All of the above

2.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Which of these explorers completed their journey during the Old World phase?

Ferdinand Magellan

Marco Polo

Vasco Da Gama

Matthew Flinders

3.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Which explorer began the New World by discovering the Americas?

Christopher Columbus

Captain James Cook

Abel Tasman

Zheng He

4.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What kind of dangers or difficulties could explorers face?

Shipwreck

Running out of food and water

Getting lost

All of the above

5.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What is a primary source?

Colours

Information from a person who experienced an event

Information from someone who heard about an event

A book written about an event by someone who researched it

6.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What is a secondary source?

Information written by someone who researched an event

Photo, original painting, diary entry

A source of water

Information given by someone who experienced an event

7.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Which of the following are map features?

A heading and writing

Drawings of continents

Compass rose, scale, key

Pictures

8.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Explorers have shaped the world we live in today by...

Countries speaking the language of the explorer who first 'discovered' the continent/area or established colonies

Explorers mapped and navigated much of the world we know today

Explorers influenced exchanges of culture, food and traditions that we know today

All of the above

9.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

A continent is...

A large landmass and associated islands

A large body of water

A country

A made up word

10.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Which European explorer was the first one known to have contact with the Australian continent?

Willem Janzsoon

Dirk Hartog

Abel Tasman

Captain James Cook

11.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Evidence has been found to show that before European exploration of Australia, Indigenous Australians traded with...

the Macassan people, trading trepang for knives

the Dutch explorers

the Chinese seafarers

Sharks

12.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Ferdinand Magellan is credited with...

completing the first circumnavigation of the world

discovering the Indian Ocean

conquering the Vikings

getting funding for his exploration by the Spanish king

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