7th Grade Unit 2 Quiz 1

Remembering our timeline activity in the hall, Humans on the timeline are relatively

• recent (new)
• old
• right in the middle
• at the very end

When you examine these ancient skulls, what can you conclude?

• That all of these skulls have changed very little in their bone structures
• That all of these skulls are exactly the same and must have been from quintuplets.
• That over time these hominids have changed greatly in the jaw lines, eye placement, and nose structures.
• There is no conclusion to make about these skulls.

The universe is 

• 4-5 billion years old
• 13 billion years old
• 25 million years old
• 10 million years old

Archaeologists construct accounts of the past by 

• examining artifacts left behind
• watching movies of what others think happened
• People from the past tell them what happened
• They read history books

World history highlights

• chickens and cows used for food
• differences among the world's people
• the earth's crust and how it has expanded
• fashion in the U.S.

Prehistory means

• before there was any history
• before anyone cared about history
• before history was interesting
• before history could be written down. 

Sources of prehistory that can be studied are

• records and pictures taken
• history book accounts
• murals in ice caves and traces of DNA
• fibers and boxes of clothes

What allows us to study the past with no textual artifacts

• collaboration between archaeologists and historians
• teachers that read history books
• Students that read history books
• collaboration between historians themselves

Historians ask

• What is this artifact?
• What tools were used?
• When did this happen? What happened?
• How did the hand prints get on the ceiling?

Archaeologists ask

• What is this tool
  what is this artifact and what was it used for?
• when did this happen?
• What happened?
• They don't ask any questions