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Bill Nye Archaeology

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The study of ancient people and their culture is called

a)

biology

b)

geography

c)

archaeology

d)

studyology

2.

Artifacts are

a)

art made of facts

b)

small items left behind from earlier times

c)

a study of multiplication facts by Arty

d)

food items

3.

Examples of artifacts are

a)

pottery, bones, tools, art

b)

chicken, steak, fish, rice

c)

temples, houses, store rooms

d)

dogs, cats, horses, rabits

4.

How does Carbon Dating work

a)

Shake up your soda (carbonation) on your date

b)

Find out how much Carbon 12 is left in a once living object

c)

See how the weight has changed

d)

Find out how much Carbon 14 is left in a once-living object

5.

What can an artifact tell us? Click all that apply

a)

how people lived

b)

what people knew about the world

c)

what people new about science

d)

the names of the aliens that landed on Earth

6.

True or False....trash is pretty useless when learning about a culture

a)

true

b)

false

7.

To create petroglyphs, you would

a)

paint on the wall

b)

hammer one rock on top of another rock

c)

use a chisel and hammer

d)

dig up artifacts

8.

Which is a problem that archaeologists face

a)

being haunted from the spirits

b)

being hungry, very, very, hungry

c)

trying to figure out whole story from little pieces

d)

not getting paid

9.

How do artifacts get burried?

a)

winds

b)

floods

c)

on purpose

d)

all of the above

10.

True or False, one day archaeologists will be studying what was left behind by kids in 2020

a)

true

b)

false