Primary and Secondary Sources Worksheet

What is the main difference between a primary source and a secondary source?

• Primary sources are written by historians

• Secondary sources are created during the event

• Primary sources come directly from people who experienced the event

• Secondary sources include objects like artifacts

What does it mean to plagiarize?

• To check multiple sources

• To summarize a document

• To quote a primary source

• To present someone else’s work as your own

Which is an example of identifying bias in a source?

• The source uses words like ‘always’ or ‘never’

• The source was written long ago

• The source describes a timeline

• The source lists multiple viewpoints

What do the initials B.C.E. stand for?

• Before Civil Events

• Before Common Era

• Before Central Europe

• Before Current Era

How are years counted in C.E.?

• Backward from 1000

• In reverse from 1

• Forward from the birth of Jesus

• By centuries only

Which is one of the Five Themes of Geography?

• The uses of geography

• Movement

• Physical systems

• Spatial terms

Why do we study history?

• To memorize dates

• To better understand the past, present, and future

• To collect ancient objects

• To write essays about government

Continuity is defined as:

• The way things stay the same

• A function is continuous if it is differentiable everywhere.

• A function is continuous if it has no maximum or minimum.

• A function is continuous if it is always increasing.

What is chronology?

• The order in which events happen

• The study of fossils

• A way to divide up centuries

• A timeline of presidents