Name:__________

Date:__________

Homeroom:_________

Pre-Test and Post Test

Word Bank
Climatologist
Fleet

El Nio
Phenomenon

Prevailing winds
Strait
Sequence
Anthropologist

Enabled
Confound

Directions: Fill in the blank with the correct word from the word bank above to each definition.
1. A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water is a __________.
2. __________________ are winds that blow from one general direction.
3. _____________ is a disturbance of wind patterns and ocean currents in the Pacific Ocean that
causes temporary climate changes in many parts of the world.
4. A ______________ is an order of events or a progression.
5. A person who studies human culture or human development is an ___________.
6. ________________ is to present with a difficult problem.
Directions: Fill in the word that best completes each sentence from the word bank above.
1. Considering the weakened sate of Magellans crew, it is possible that it was the El Nio that
__________ the fleet to make it across the Pacific Ocean.
2. After one of the vessels was lost, the crew decided to stop until weather conditions improved.
Finally, over a year after leaving Spain, the ________ found the strait which would later be
named for Magellan. Magellans remaining four ships finally reached the Pacific Ocean.
3. A _____________ studies the climates of the world.
4. Researchers say that the El Nio ________________ that has presented climatologists in recent
decades with difficult problems may have played a role in determining the course of history.
BONUS: Who was Ferdinand Magellan? What did he do?