Timelines Vocabulary

_____________________ is something that goes from top to bottom.

• horizontal

• event

• interval

• vertical

The order in which events occur is called _______________________.

• decade

• cause

• chronological order

• timeline

A period of ten years is called a __________________

• century

• decade

• event

• vertical

A ______________________ is a tool used to show the order in which events occur.

• horizontal

• timeline

• event

• chronological order

A defined time period marked off by two points is called an ________________.

• interval

• event

• decade

• effect

An ____________________ is something that happened that was significant.

• effect

• decade

• cause

• event

____________________________ means side to side.

• horizontal

• vertical

• effect

• century

An ______________ is the result of something happening.

• cause

• event

• effect

• timeline

A period of one hundred years is called a ____________________.

• decade

• timeline

• interval

• century

The reason something happened is the __________________.

• effect

• event

• cause

• interval