Archaeology

Archaeology

Cactus Hill

Multiple Choice

What is the job of an Archaeologist?

• to study past cultures, by analyzing artifacts, remains and ruins

• To study scientific and historical fossils from dinosaurs

• To study the relationship between geography and fossils

Multiple Choice

Your teachers are a natural, human or capital resource?

• natural
• capital
• human

Poll

POLL: What do you think makes a good archaeologist?You can choose more than one!

• Be Creative

• Be patient

• Be curious

• Be familiar with history

Poll

POLL:Would you make a good archaeologist?

• Definitely! I love digging in the dirt!

• No way! I don't like getting dirty!

• Maybe, it depends if I could find cool things!

• No, I don't have an interest in this.

Multiple Choice

Is a PENCIL a Human, Natural, or Capital Resource?

• human resource
• natural resource
• capital resource

Multiple Choice

Is a DOCTOR a Human, Natural, or Capital Resource??

• Natural Resource
• Capital Resource
• Human Resource

Multiple Choice

Is a FISH a Capital, Natural, or Human resource???

• Human Resource
• Natural Resource
• Capital Resource

Multiple Choice

What is an example of a CAPITAL resource?

• river

• fish

• teacher

• fishing pole

Multiple Choice

What is an example of a NATURAL resource?

• lake

• house

• fisherman

• hammer

Multiple Choice

What is an example of a HUMAN resource?

• Builder

• boat

• sword

• river

Multiple Choice

What is one disagreement among scientists?

• how the Ice Age ended

• How and when people first came to the Western Hemisphere

• how long it took people to arrive in the Eastern Hemisphere

Multiple Choice

What was the BIG discovery at Cactus Hill?

• dionsaur fossils from 10,000 years ago

• bones of a Mastedon

• human artifacts from 15,000 years ago

Multiple Choice

What makes Cactus Hill one of the oldest archaeological sites in North America?

• evidence of transportation the early Americans used to get to North America

• evidence that large animals lived there

• evidence that humans lived there 15,000 years ago-human artifacts

Multiple Choice

Where is Cactus Hill located?

• In Southern VA

• Near the Gulf of Mexico

• in the Interior Lowlands

• In North Carolina

Multiple Choice

Cactus Hill is located along which river?

• Ohio River
• Nottoway River
• St. Lawrence
• James River

Multiple Choice

A person who studies human behavior and culture through the recovery and analysis of artifacts is called a(n) ___.

• scientist

• archaeologist

• paleontologist

• botanist