Written in Bone Quiz 4

Anemia is

• the softening of bones

• a lack of a sufficient number of red blood cells

• a soil study

How can a person's age at the time of death be measured (approximately) by the cranium?

• by the laugh lines

• by the holes from sickness

• by the growth of the sutures

For what reason are remains taken to a clean room?

• So they can be cleaned and studied.

• So they can be studied without being contaminated.

• So they don't get the burial pit contaminated.

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CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

The Project Lead Coffin team was not able to view the contents of the coffins through the lead with an X-ray. Instead, they were able to see inside before opening the coffins by using

• gamma rays.

• micro waves.

• sonar waves.

Cecil Calvert founded Maryland as a

• colony for Catholic worship only.

• colony to practice any religion freely.

• colony where any Christian could worship freely.

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CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The lead coffins were discovered underneath

• St. Mary's City Chapel.

• the James Fort.

• a burial mound.

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CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

To be done in secrecy:

• hastily

• opaque

• clandestine

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The boy in the basement was determined to be

• the owner's son.

• an indentured servant.

• a slave.

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Why would a young person be willing to leave their home in England to travel to the new colonies as someone's indentured servant?

• He/she hopes to have a better life after working off the time of indenture.

• He/she can not afford to start a new life on his/her own.

• He/she was a wealthy landowner.

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Archeologists use ______________ to find differences in densities of soil layers.

• Gamma Rays

• Ground Penetrating Radar

• X-rays