Module 1: Uncovering the Past

What is an archaeologist?

• people who comment on important current issues.

• people who study dinosaurs

• people who study how people lived their daily lives, often through oral or written stories.

• People who interpret the past based on what objects people have left behind.

What is geography?

• The study of important current issues.

• The study of the earth’s physical and

  cultural features

• the study of dinosaurs

• The study of how people lived their daily lives, often through oral or written stories.

What is a historian?

• people who comment on important current issues.

• people who study the rocks of the Earth

• people who study dinosaurs

• people who study how people lived their daily lives, often through oral or written stories.

What is TRUE about a secondary source?

• A secondary source may be an eye witness account.

• A secondary source may be an original document.

• A secondary source may have different viewpoints of the same event.

• A secondary source may be the actual voice of the person who lived long ago.

What does a human geographer study?

• weather patterns

• physical features of the earth

• people and the places they live

• types of plants and animals

What type of map would I use if I wanted to locate a mountain range?

• political map

• physical map

• weather map

• population map

What is the charge people pay the government called?

• profit

• trade

• tax

• economy

• civics

What is a system of producing, selling and buying goods and services called?

• profit

• trade

• tax

• economy

• civics

What is the money an individual or business has left after paying expenses called?

• profit

• trade

• tax

• economy

• civics

What do we call the study of citizenship and government?

• profit

• trade

• tax

• economy

• civics