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CLUES
for “The
Lost Treasure of Captain Kidd”
Ship’s Name: ____________________________
CREW:
Digger______________
Linguist______________ Navigator_________________
Trace
your journey on the treasure maps (US and World), circle your keywords, and use the following resources to answer the
clues to locate the “Buried Treasure”(NOTE: Remember Spelling and
Neatness Counts):
Encarta Atlas
www.u-s-history.com
Searchasaurus Encyclopedia
National Geographic
Yahooligans
Electronic Book Catalog
Maps
CLUES:
1.
Start at the capital of the United States.
_______________________________
2.
North to the city were The Declaration of Independence and the US
Constitution
were
written. _____________________________________________
3.
North to the capital of New
York. __________________________________
4.
North to the river Jacques Cartier discovered. ______________________
5.
SW to the city where Lewis & Clark began their expedition of the
Louisiana
Purchase.
_____________________________________________
6. Follow their
trail along the rivers of the West to the Pacific Ocean where their
journey
ended. Name the two rivers: 1. ___________________________
2. _________________
7. South to the
city where the Forty-Niners arrived to prospect during the Gold Rush
in 1848.
_________________________________________________
8. East, across
the Rocky Mountains, to the Four Corners, the Navajo Reservation,
where four
states join together at one point. Name the states: 1. _____________
2.
__________________ 3. ____________________ 4. __________________
9. SE to the
Louisiana city at the mouth of the Mississippi River. ____________
10. SE, across the Gulf of Mexico, to a West Indies island where Christopher
Columbus first landed
thinking it was India. _______________
11. SW to the country
that Pres. Theodore Roosevelt helped to gain its independence
from Columbia so
the US could build a canal linking the Atlantic and
Pacific Ocean.
________________________________
12. East to the
rainforest of Brazil and the river that carries more water than any
other river on earth. _______________________________________________
13. South to the
channel at the tip of South America, between the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans, that the explorer, Ferdinand Magellan, discovered when he was
the
first
person to circumnavigate the globe.
14. North to the
home of the Aztec pyramids. _____________________________
15. SE,
around the Cape of Good Hope, to the island where 90
men of Capt. Kidd’s
crew deserted
in the Indian Ocean .
____________________________
16.
North along the African
coast, then west into the Gulf of Aden to the Sea
where Capt.
Kidd captured some pirates and brought their loot to England.
_____________________________
17.
NW to the Egyptian
pyramids and the longest river in the world. ____________
18. NW, across
the Mediterranean Sea, to the capital of England where Capt. Kidd
received command of his ship, the Adventure
Galley. ____________________
19. South to the
capital of the country that gave America the Statue of Liberty and is
home to the Eiffel Tower.
____________________________________
20. East to the capital of
the country that was once called the Soviet Union. ________
21. SE, along Marco Polo's
Silk Route, to the capital of the
largest country in the world that produced the world’s silk.
____________________
22. SW to the Indian Ocean and the
capital of India. _______________________
23. SE to the capital of the only
country that is also a continent. ________________
24.
West across the Pacific Ocean, through the Strait of Magellan, and north
to the city
the colonist called New Amsterdam at
the mouth of the Hudson River._________
25.
See your Library Media Specialist for the final clue to “The Lost Treasure of Captain
Kidd”.
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