WorksheetsSHIP- Last Session
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 4mins
The towns of Accompong and Moore Town are in what country?
Jamaica
Tobago
Haiti
United States
Since we are archaeologists, what is a good choice for what we will do with the box and letter we found?
Send it to a university in the US for study and display.
Show it to the people of Accompong and put it in their local history museum.
Keep it since we are the ones who went through the trouble of finding it.
Is Goldknife's journal a primary or secondary source?
Primary
Secondary
What is an artifact?
An artifact is something old that's valuable.
An artifact is a fact about art.
An artifact is someone who learns about the past.
An artifact is something archaeologists look at to learn about the past.
Which of the following are examples of good archaeological goals?
Understanding human culture.
Understanding human history.
Documenting changes in human societies through time.
All of the above.
What is the name of the cipher type used on the cutlass and the journal (week one) where the alphabet is moved down?
shift cipher
default cipher
polyalphabetic cipher
transposed cipher
Which one is NOT a tool that archaeologists use? (They're not all in the picture!)
Paintbrush
Their own mind
Shovel
Jackhammer
An area where archaeologists dig things up from the past (like where we dug in Accompong) is called...
a site
a wash
a hole
a laboratory
A screen is used in archaeology to do what?
to measure artifacts
sift through dirt to find artifacts
to pull out impurities in the water
to dig into the ground
What can you reasonably guess about an artifact that is found near the top of the earth's surface?
It was probably used a hundred years ago.
It is probably not that important.
It was probably used or made fairly recently.
Somebody stole it and hid it.
What can you reasonably guess about an artifact that is found deeper into the earth's surface?
It is older than things near the surface.
It is probably not that important.
It was used or made fairly recently.
Somebody stole it and hid it.
What does it mean to excavate something?
to look at something.
to dig something up.
to label something.
to name something.
Based on all the information we've found, what is most likely to be Goldknife's real first name?
James
Selena
Sarah
Louisa
