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Historians Toolkit

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Those who study events in the past are called ____.

a)

teachers

b)

historians

c)

lawyers

d)

professors

2.

What three things do historians do? (choose three)

a)

study how events are connected

b)

study earth processes such as earthquakes, landslides, floods, and volcanic eruptions

c)

use clues to find the causes or reasons why somthing happened

d)

look for effects or results of an event

3.

What is an opnion?

a)

something that can be observed or proved

b)

a letter, diary, or speech

c)

a personal belief or conclusion

d)

study of artifacts and fossils

4.

Bias and point-of-view both play roles in a historians field of work.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

Why are the discussions among historians ongoing?

a)

new evidence may lead to new interpretations

b)

historians love to argue

c)

historians have a built in bias

d)

error and chance in history are very complicated

6.

What is an artifact?

a)

An object made by humans.

b)

Any object that was buried.

c)

The remains of a once living thing.

d)

A dinosaur bone.

7.

What is the diagram that shows the order of event within a period of time?

a)

chronology

b)

timeline

c)

era

d)

primary source

8.

What is the term that describes the order of dates and/or times in which events happened?

a)

secondary source

b)

Before Common Era

c)

chronology

d)

timeline

9.

Which theme of geography has to do with characteristics that give an area their own qualities like climate, plant or animal life, language, and religion?

a)

human/environment interaction

b)

movement

c)

place

d)

location

10.

A personal attitude or perspective of a certain event is called?

a)

Bias

b)

Point of View

c)

Credibility

d)

Multiplie Persepectives

11.

Choose the answer that shows an example of bias.

a)

Hiring a man over a more-qualified woman

b)

having a different point of view as another person that participated in the same event

c)

a witness to a disaster talks about what they saw based on what they were doing and where they were standing

12.

For a historian, ____________ is something that shows proof or an indication that something is true. p. HT20

a)

opinion

b)

evidence

c)

history

d)

geography

13.

_____ information is data that helps answer a research question because it applies directly to the topic at hand. p. HT20

a)

Relevant

b)

Important

c)

Factual

14.

True or false: Historians do not have biases because they interfere with their work. p. HT22

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Point of view could be best described as p. HT22

a)

an analytical approach to an event.

b)

a fact-based opinion.

c)

a general attitude about people and life.

16.

Why do historians piece facts together? p. HT24

a)

to confirm established conclusions

b)

to interpret meaning from them

c)

to determine their reliability

17.

Historians are like _____________, they ask questions about information they find from the past. p. HT19

a)

surgeons

b)

politicians

c)

detectives

d)

librarians

18.

A kind of map that shows man-made things such as countries, states, counties, cities, etc.

a)

Political Map

b)

Prime Meridian

c)

Physical Map

d)

latitude

19.

A type of map that main purpose is to show land surface and water features

a)

Political Map

b)

Prime Meridian

c)

Physical Map

d)

latitude

20.

Something that makes an event happen

a)

cardinal diretions

b)

projection

c)

symbol

d)

cause