Studying the Distant Past Quiz/Review of Previous Learning Quiz

Study of humankind in all aspects especially development and culture.

• Zoology

• Anthropology

• Microbiology

• Paleolithic

Scientist who studies human life in the past by examining things people left behind.

• Psychologist

• Biologist

• Ophthalmologist

• Archaeologist

Object made by a human being.

• Gatherer

• Hunter

• Fossil

• Artifact

HOW DO SCIENTISTS FIND OUT HOW OLD AN ARTIFACT IS?

• THEY SEE HOW DEEP IN THE GROUND IT IS.

• THEY JUST GIVE A GUESTIMATE

• THEY SPEAK TO SOMEONE WHO LIVED HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO.

• THEY USE THE GEOLOGICAL METHOD

IN WHAT CONTINENT WAS EVIDENCE OF THE FIRST HUMAN BEING FOUND

• ASIA

• EUROPE

• NORTH AMERICA

• AFRICA

Time before written history.

• Prehistory

• Submarine

• Historic

• Archaeology

THIS IS THE TIME PERIOD WHEN HISTORY WAS WRITTEN DOWN

• PREHISTORY

• HISTORY

WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE PART OF THE MAP THAT SHOWS THE DISTANCE (FOR EXAMPLE...1 INCH=100 MILES

• KEY

• SCALE

• COMPASS ROSE

WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE PART OF A MAP THAT TELLS YOU THE DIRECTIONS NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST.

• KEY

• SCALE

• COMPASS ROSE

WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE MAP THAT SHOWS THE SYMBOLS AND EXPLAINS WHAT EACH SYMBOL MEANS.

• KEY

• SCALE

• COMPASS ROSE