Question

Match the following items.

1. Queen Isabella of Spain paid for him to sail west to reach the Far East
equator
2. largest ocean
hemisphere
3. ocean around the North Pole
Mir
4. Russian space station
Vasco da Gama
5. imaginary line around the middle of the earth
Pacific
6. first to sail from Portugal, around Africa, to India
Arctic
7. Florida, a piece of land almost surrounded by water
Spice Islands
8. an imaginary line through the earth around which the earth turns
Columbus
9. half of sphere
peninsula
10. Europeans 500 years ago wanted to find an all-water route to this place
axis

Answer 1

1.) Columbus
2.) pacific
3.) arctic
4.) mir
5.) equator
6.) Vasco da Gama
7.) peninsula
8.) axis
9.) hemisphere
10.) spice islands

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