| A | B |
| Explorer | someone who seeks out new adventures and discoveries |
| European | one who is from the continent of Europe |
| sponsor | someone who finances or pays for a project carried out by another person |
| diseases | an abnormal bodily condition of a living plant or animal that interferes with functioning and can usually be recognized by signs and symptoms |
| colonize | when another country sets up a colony or small settlement in a new land |
| fall line | the place in a river where the waterfalls begin; ships can not travel past this point |
| Christopher Columbus | Spain |
| Juan Ponce de Leon | Spain |
| Jacques Cartier | France |
| Christopher Newport | England |