wayground logo

Free Printable Worksheets

NEW

Font size

S
M
L
XL
Worksheets

Academic Vocabulary: Practice Quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Best definition of Primary Source?

a)

The area a group of people originally came from.

b)

A document or artifact created during a particular historic period

c)

The piece of information that best describes a historic event

d)

The plainest/simplest piece of information available

2.

Best definition of Chronology.

a)

The crumbling or decay of old things.

b)

To organize things in the order in which they happened.

c)

Never stopping.

d)

The highest level of achievement of a civilization.

3.

Best definition of categorize.

a)

To explain things completely.

b)

To discuss new ways of doing things.

c)

To decided what is true and what is false.

d)

To group like things together.

4.

Best definition of claim

a)

To take away from others.

b)

To give up something.

c)

To state, say or write, something that you believe to be true.

d)

An area to collect items such as luggage

5.

Best definition of citation

a)

To explain where you found certain information.

b)

To dig up old places

c)

To read about a subject until you understand it.

d)

To burn things of another group of people

6.

Best definition of paraphrase

a)

To copy something word for word

b)

To take someones else's words and restate them using your own choice of words to share the meaning.

c)

Two groups that are similar

d)

something that is especially difficult to understand.

7.

Best definition of evidence

a)

information that proves something correct or incorrect.

b)

rules to follow.

c)

the height of something.

d)

What people do.

8.

Best definition of artifact.

a)

Something buried in the ground.

b)

Something that looks a lot like another item.

c)

An object made by a human.

d)

Artwork that tells a story

9.

Best definition of commentary

a)

to try and explain something.

b)

something that was very common in a society.

c)

to break something into smaller parts like a comma divides a sentence.

d)

to dig up clues.

10.

Best definition of contradiction

a)

To write a detailed story

b)

when a statement or ideas are the opposite of each other.

c)

When to or more items show the same basic facts.

d)

To try and stop something from happening.

11.

Corroboration

a)

Something that has been proven to not be true.

b)

Something that is obviously true.

c)

to put actions in the order in which they happen like putting on socks before shoes.

d)

two or more stories that basically tell the same story or share many of the same facts.

12.

Best definition of Secondary Source.

a)

A work, creation, about an event by someone who was not actually at the event.

b)

The second best fact you have to prove your point.

c)

Information that is told but not written down.

d)

Not a story but an item from an event in history.

13.

Best definition of archaeology.

a)

The study of the design of ancient buildings

b)

The study of history by digging up things from the past.

c)

Deciding if something from the past is important.

d)

Really old or "archaic" items.

14.

Best definition of culture.

a)

The things people do or create. A way of living life.

b)

To dig for old things from the past.

c)

To create a list of things people of the past did wrong in order to learn from it.

d)

The type of resources an ancient group of people had with which to survive.

15.

Best definition of economics

a)

How the weather effects how people live.

b)

The type of physical land people have to live upon.

c)

The things people do that make them different from other groups of people.

d)

how people work and use their resources to make a living.

16.

Best definition of government.

a)

the group that is strong enough to collect taxes.

b)

the laws or rules that a society or group of people use to guide or control its members.

c)

a persons own self expectations.

d)

People who always know what the others in their group want.

17.

Best definition of geography.

a)

The making of maps

b)

The study of the physical surface of the earth and how people interact with that land.

c)

traveling from place to place in search of clues about the past.

d)

People who live in a certain area.

18.

Best definition of social classes.

a)

How free were people to exercise Freedom of Speech.

b)

Teaching on how to behave and not get into trouble.

c)

how people are divided up into groups for reasons that some believe are important.

d)

The study of other people not in your society.

19.

Best definition of Belief System.

a)

Belief in God or a set of rules that help you decided right or wrong.

b)

The science of discovering where to dig for clues because you believe things are buried there.

c)

What we believe about a group of people before we study them.

d)

The rules for studying people from the past.

20.

Best definition of achievements.

a)

How a ruler was elected to run things.

b)

discoveries or creations of a society.

c)

how your people made a living and gained wealth.

d)

facts believed to be true by all members of a society.