Archaeology Pre-test

What is Archaeology?

• The study of dinosaur bones
• The study of artifacts
• Playing adventure video games
• The study of old rocks

What are artifacts?

• Art Museums
• Rocks
• None of these
• Bones

Archaeology is important because it helps us understand our ______.

• past
• present 
• future
• dreams

What is this called?

• Aliens 
• Stone Alignment 
• Stonehenge 
• Vedas

What is the job of an Archaeologist?

• to study past cultures, human remains, settlements, fossils, and artifacts
• To study scientific and historical fossils from dinosaurs
• To find cool stuff underground
• To study the relationship between geography and fossils 

What are two examples of artifacts?

• fossil and tool
• art and fossil
• art and tool
• weapon and fossil

Which of these items would be considered an artifact?

• arrowhead
• petrified wood
• wooly mammoth tooth
• dinosaur bone

Which of the following would be considered a fossil?

• decayed plant remains
• clay pots
• scrolls 
• arrowhead

Relatives who lived in the past.

• ancestors
• archaeologist
• descendant
• architect

Scientist who study the remains of past human life.

• ancestors
• archaeologist
• descendant
• architect