LT4 Quiz Sources

What should you know about website sources before trusting them?

• who wrote it

• if the information is true

• if the author is an expert

• all of the above

What is a PRIMARY SOURCE

• Second hand information sometimes given long after an event

• written accounts of an event by a professor

• first hand accounts of events by people who saw and experienced it

• textbooks, encyclopedias, magazines

What type of sources do ARCHAEOLOGISTS use to study the past?

• journals

• magazines

• newpapers

• artifacts and fossils

What is a SECONDARY SOURCE?

• first hand accounts of events that people witnessed/experienced

• pictures/journals/diaries

• second hand accounts of events that someone heard about or told sometime after the event

• the second time an event happens that was created by the government

What is NOT an example of a PRIMARY SOURCE?

• a journal

• an artifact used by someone in the past

• a biography of a famous person

• a photograph