Unit 1 Vocabulary Quiz

What is a historian?

• a person who researches, studies, and writes about the past, and is considered an expert on it

• a person who studies human activity through the recovery and analysis of artifacts from today and the past

• a person who studies the history of life on Earth through the fossil record

• a person who studies the solid, liquid, and gaseous matter that constitutes Earth and other terrestrial planets

Put these events in __________ order, based on when they occurred.

• Chronological

• Primary Source

• Artifact

• Contextualization

When you feel so strongly about something that it influences what you say and do you have displayed __________.

• Evidence

• Bias

• Sourcing

• Causation

To be _______ is to not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.

• Bias

• Sourcing

• Objective

• Transparent

An opinion or point of view presented by the author of a document, influenced by the author’s personal circumstances.

• Primary Source

• Perspective

• Historical Context

• Interpretation

The action of explaining the meaning of something, to make sense of it

• Historical Context

• Perspective

• Primary Source

• Interpretation

A document created about an event, but not experienced by the person themselves is a...

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Definition: Refers to the historical circumstances that led to this event/idea/historical development.

• geographical context

• historical context

• source

• turning point

Definition: fit to be trusted or relied on

• perspective

• reliable

• persuade

Definition: something which shows that something else is true

• primary source

• secondary source

• evidence

• claim

• account