Historians Toolkit 7 Vocab Review

Firsthand evidence of an event in history (a witness)

• primary source

• plagiarism

• inference

• secondary source

A logical conclusion based on evidence that may not be stated directly

• primary source

• plagiarism

• inference

• secondary source

Using someone else's work, without giving them credit, and pretending it's your own. (copying)

• artifact

• plagiarism

• archaeology

• secondary source

A work created by someone who was not at the event it is about, like a textbook

• artifact

• plagiarism

• archaeology

• secondary source

An object made by people of the past, often for a practical purpose

• artifact

• paleontology

• archaeology

• fossil

Plant or animal remains that have been preserved in the Earth's crust

• inference

• paleontology

• archaeology

• fossil

The study of objects to learn about past human life

• inference

• paleontology

• archaeology

• context

Charles Darwin's travel journal would be an example of a ________________ source.

• interesting

• primary

• secondary

• bias

After reading the story, Mr. Holtzman asked his class to make a(n) ____________ about what caused the character to react the way she did.

• interrogate

• fossil

• inference

• coconuts

Penny didn't commit _____________ because she rewrote her findings in her own words and cited her sources.

• planarism

• primaryism

• pluralism

• plagiarism