What does exploration mean?
Word: Exploration
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Exploration means the act of travelling through a new place to learn about it. It is also used for looking carefully into an idea or subject.
How do you spell exploration?
Syllables: ex - plo - ra - tion
Tricky part: Explore loses its final e and takes an a instead, so pupils who keep the e write exploretion.
Watch out for: exploretion, exploraition
Memory tip: Picture an explorer's map marked with a big A: explore swaps its last e for that a.
Exploration in a sentence
Example 1: The museum has a whole floor on the exploration of the Arctic.
Example 2: Rock pools at low tide reward a careful exploration.
Example 3: Our science club began an exploration of how seeds travel from one place to another.
Fun Fact
In July 1969 Apollo 11 landed the first people on the Moon, a milestone in space exploration.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
explorration
a) p
b) r
c) l
d) o
Show answer
b) r. Explore has a single r, and so does this word.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The explorasion of the nature trail ended with a picnic beside the stream.
a) picnic
b) explorasion
c) stream
d) nature
Show answer
b) explorasion. The ending is tion, as in station.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word:
exploration
a) boredom
b) retreat
c) delay
d) expedition
Show answer
d) expedition. An expedition is a trip made to find out about a faraway place.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) seperate
b) exploration
c) dicision
d) goverment
Show answer
b) exploration. Decision starts with de, separate has an a after the p, and government has an n before ment.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Whose work depends most on exploration?
a) a clerk filing letters
b) a cashier counting coins
c) a scientist mapping a cave system
d) a tailor stitching a shirt
Show answer
c) a scientist mapping a cave system
2. The class began an exploration of Mughal art. What were they doing?
a) hanging posters in the corridor
b) selling copies at a fair
c) painting over old pictures
d) learning as much as they could about it
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d) learning as much as they could about it
