Social Studies Chapter 1

What is an artifact?

• a fossil

• the imprint of a plant from long ago

• A food made and eaten by people

• an object made by people

When were cave paintings drawn?

• In the modern era

• Before people learned how to write

• Last October

• None of these

Historians consider cave paintings as a primary source. .

• True

• False

_________ is the study of human culture and how it develops over time.

• biology

• anthropology

• paleontology

• archaeology

How many years is a decade?

• 20 years

• 10 years

• 100 years

• 150 years

A primary source is a source that was created at the time an event happened

• True

• False

1 century = _______ years

• 1 000

• 100

• 10

• 1

1 millenium = _____ years

• 1 000

• 100

• 10

• 1

Cave paintings showed us that _______ was important to people of that time.

• writing

• reading

• hunting

• baseball

What is archaeology?

• the study of objects to learn about past human life

• the study of dinosaurs and fossils

• the study of human culture

• none of these