SS-Vocab Chapter 1.1

What is the study of human culture and how it develops over time called?

• Archaeology

• Anthropology

• Paleontology

• Geology

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CCSS.RI.6.2

Which term refers to the study of objects to learn about past human life?

• Anthropology

• Paleontology

• Archaeology

• Biology

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

What is an object made by people called?

• Fossil

• Artifact

• Species

• Era

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

What is a large division of time known as?

• Era

• Epoch

• Century

• Decade

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

What are plant or animal remains that have been preserved from an earlier time called?

• Species

• Fossils

• Artifacts

• Minerals

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CCSS.L.6.4A

What is the study of fossils called?

• Archaeology

• Anthropology

• Paleontology

• Geology

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CCSS.L.6.4A

What term describes a class of individuals with similar physical characteristics?

• Species

• Fossils

• Artifacts

• Eras

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

Archaeology is the study of...

• what people left behind

• what kind of animals lived in an area

• the stars and planets

• how continents move slowly over time

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CCSS.RI.6.2

A person who studies human history by examining artifacts is called an _________________________.

• Chemist

• Biologist

• Political Scientist

• Archaeologist

Something made by humans (often a primitive tool, structure, or part of a functional item) is called a(n) ___.

• artifact

• human resource

• natural resource

• specimen

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4