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So You Want to be a Historian

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

An anthropologist is a historian who studies

a)

fossils found in sea beds.

b)

ancient plant life.

c)

animal behavior.

d)

the history of human culture.

2.

A historian looks for firsthand evidence about an event in which type of resource?

a)

a secondary source

b)

a primary source

c)

the Internet

d)

an online scholarly journal

3.

An archaeologist studies

a)

fossils

b)

artifacts

4.

Which of the following is an example of a decade?

a)

1995-2000

b)

2010-2020

c)

The Prehistoric Age

d)

The Middle Ages

5.

An archaeologists

a)

looks at bones

b)

looks at artifacts

c)

studies cutures

d)

studies writing

6.

What kind of source is an encyclopedia?

a)

secondary

b)

primary

c)

artifact

d)

fossil

7.

What kind of person studies cultures of different people?

a)

archaeologist

b)

anthropologist

c)

historian

d)

paleontologist

8.

What is a decade, a century, and a millennium?

4 lines
9.

(a)   is the time before people wrote.

10.

Paleontologists study (a)   , which are remains of something once alive.

11.

What kind of calendar do we use today?

a)

Gregorian

b)

Julian

c)

Lunar

d)

Leap Year