7th Grade Social Studies Vocabulary Quiz

Match the following

• these refer to the years before the birth of Jesus in the Gregorian calendar

• C.E. or A.D.

• Used to track events by date in chronological order

• B.C.E. or B.C.

• A personal attitude or opinion about a subject

• Chronology

• refers to the years after the birth of Jesus in the Gregorian calendar

• Timeline

• The order in which events happen

• Point of view

A Primary Source is ...

• Original

• "first hand" experience

• "eye witness" experience

• All of the above

Answer explanation

Which is an example of a primary source?

• a diary

• a live interview

• an official document

• all of the above

Answer explanation

Which item is a Secondary Source?

• Autobiography

• Photograph

• Patent

• Biography

Which item is NOT a Primary Source?

• National Geographic magazine article

• Diary

• 1900's Buffalo Nickel

• Live video footage

A history book about WWI is a

• primary source

• secondary source

Match the following

• A period of 1,000 years

• Era

• A period of 10 years

• Decade

• A large division of time, usually larger than a period

• Century

• Similar to an era, a large division of time

• Period

• A period of 100 years

• Millennium

An ​ (a)   studies human culture or how they adapt to their environment, how they interact with each other, and/or how they communicate with each other. ​ (b)   is the study of how people and nations make choices about how to use the resources around them. A person who studies the stuff the is left behind by people who lived long ago is called an ​ (c)   . If you are learning about social behavior in humans or how they interact with each other then you are studying ​ (d)   .

• Anthropologist
• Economics
• Archaeologist
• sociology

What is absolute location?

(a)  

Relative location is

(a)