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WorksheetsCore Concepts 1.1 Measuring Time
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
People who study events of the past.
a)
professors
b)
historians
c)
surgeons
d)
old people
2.
A line marked off with a series of events and dates.
a)
number line
b)
sentence
c)
timeline
d)
calendar
3.
A list of events in the order in which they occurred.
a)
time order
b)
"If you ain't first ur last"
c)
chronology
d)
oldest to newest
4.
A length of time singled out because of a specific event or development
a)
period
b)
time zone
c)
time frame
d)
score
5.
A period is also known as an _______.
a)
leap year
b)
decade
c)
epoch
d)
long time
6.
Historians use periods and ______ to organize and describe human activities.
a)
eras
b)
time frames
c)
lead years
d)
commas
7.
History is divided between history and ____________.
a)
the future
b)
prehistory
c)
jurassic park
d)
now
8.
Prehistory is the time before humans invented __________.
a)
language
b)
stone tools
c)
writing
d)
arithemetic
9.
How long ago did written history begin?
a)
152,000 years ago
b)
5,200 years ago
c)
July 4, 1776
d)
1945
10.
Years after Jesus's birth are labeled A.D. meaning anno Domini which means:
a)
"in the year of our Lord"
b)
After Death
c)
Common Era
d)
Before the Common Era
11.
Astrolabe was used by Muslim astronomers to calculate the positions of all of the following except _________.
a)
The Sun
b)
The Moon
c)
The Stars
d)
Astroids
12.
A decade is
a)
10 years
b)
50 years
c)
100 years
d)
1000 years
13.
A century is
a)
10 years
b)
50 years
c)
100 years
d)
1000 years
14.
A millennium is
a)
1 year
b)
100 years
c)
1000 years
d)
10,000 years
15.
Which group had two calendars? A 365 day agricultural calendar, and a 260 day religious calendar.
a)
Aztec
b)
Maya
c)
Romans
d)
Klingons
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