DMS Week 2 Review

Prehistory is

• Large blocks of time that are divided up by characteristics rather than years.

• Plant or animal remains that are impressed into stone

• Events that occur before writing or recorded history

• a class of individuals with similar characteristics

A Large block of time that is divided up by certain events or characteristics rather than specific years is called

• Precise

• Prehistory

• Millennium

• Era

Highly accurate or specific

• Precise

• Artifact

• Era

• Prehistory

A person who locates and studies things or artifacts that were left behind by people in the past

• anthropologist

• species

• archaeologist

• paleontologist

A system for ranging days in order

• sundial

• calendar

• prehistory

• artifact

A person who studies fossils

• archaeologist

• anthropologist

• paleontologist

• zoologist

An individual with distinct similar characteristics is called a

• artifact

• fossil

• animal

• species

Something that is necessary or essential

• Integral

• precise

• found

• artifact

To create or to establish something is called to

• purchase it

• found it

• species it

• integral it

A archaeologist would be working on what in a museum

• cleaning a dinosaur bone

• looking at cultural ideas of people

• cleaning and examining a Greek vase from the past

• painting a map of Rome