Research Questions for Explorers

What is an explorer?

Why do people explore?

How do we know about exploration?

Who sailed across the Pacific on a raft?

Who discovered America by searching for India?

Who is America named after?

Who named Canada and was one of the first to explore it?

Who discovered the Amazon River and how did it get it's name?

Who discovered the Northwest Passage and why was it an important discovery?

Which part of the world did Marco Polo explore?

Who first explored the South Seas?

What were the Spanish invaders called who conquered the Indian civilizations in Central and South America?

What is the significance of the "Green Sea of Darkness?"

Who was the first European to walk across Africa?