1. This Italian explorer visited the north coast of South America at the end of the fifteenth century. The American continent was named for him. Who was he? Columbus Vespucci Drake Balbao

2. Who was the second space explorer to set foot on the moon? Answer: (One Word Last name)

3. Who was the Norwegian who was the first to cross the ice fields of Greenland and who also attempted to reach the North Pole in the late nineteenth century? Amundsen Heyerdahl Nordenskjold Nansen

4. Which explorer was killed in Hawaii in 1779 on his third voyage of exploration to the Pacific? Bering Hudson Tasman Cook

5. Which Spanish explorer sailed down the Amazon in 1541? Orellana De Soto Pizarro Ponce de Leon

6. The first European to set foot in this South American country, that lies just to the north of the Rio de la Plata, was Juan Diaz de Solis. What was the country? Argentina Uruguay Brazil Chile

7. Who was the Italian explorer who searched for a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific and who also explored the northeast Atlantic coast? Marco Polo Columbus Verrazano Vespucci

8. This explorer is said to be the first European to set foot on the North American mainland. Answer: (Last name)

9. This Antarctic explorer also located the Magnetic North Pole in 1831. Van Dieman Ross Shackleton Byrd

10. If you take the first letter of your answers to the above questions you will have the name of the an explorer of the West Coast of North America. Answer: (One word)