Chapter 3 – Social Study Grade 5

The age of Exploration

Saga

• An adventure story that tells about the brave deeds of people of long ago

knoll

• A small, round hill.

encounter

• Meeting.

exploration

• Searching the unknown.

cartographers

• Makers of maps.

monarch

• Kings or queens.

renaissance

• A French word meaning “rebirth”.

compass

• An instrument used to find direction. It has a needle that always points north.

navigation

• The study of how to plan and control the course of a ship.

parallels

• Imaginary lines on maps and globes that run east and west are the lines of latitude.

• Lines never meet, lines always have same distance from each other.

meridians

• An imaginary lines that run north and south on map or globe. These lines are also name the longitude.

Prime meridian

• The meridian marked zero degree. It runs north and south through Greenwich near the city of London in Britain.

Conclusion

• A decision or an idea reached by thoughtful study.

isthmus

• A narrow strip of land that connects two larger land areas.

expedition

• A journey taken for a special reason

scurvy

• A sickness caused by not getting enough vitamin C, which is found in fruit and vegetables.

fact

• A statement that can be proved true.

Opinion

• A statement that tells what a person believes, and cannot be proved true.