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World HIS Ch.1 What Does a Historian Do?

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

letters diaries and government records are examples of?

a)

A. primary sources

b)

B. secondary sources

2.

ten decades grouped together is called?

a)

A. century

b)

B. millenium

c)

C. year

d)

D. lifetime

3.

A decision reached after examination of evidence

a)

A. conclusion

b)

B. artifact

c)

C. scholarly

d)

D. anthropology

4.

concerned with academic learning or research

a)

A. smart

b)

B. scholarly

c)

C. not smart

d)

D. artifact

5.

the study of objects to learn about past human life

a)

A. anthropology

b)

B. paleontology

c)

C. dinosaurology

d)

D. archeology

6.

the study of human culture and how it develops over time

a)

A. anthropology

b)

B. archeology

c)

C. artifact

d)

D. dinosaurology

7.

plant or animal remains that have been preserved from an earlier time

a)

A. spongebob

b)

B. species

c)

C. fossils

d)

D. eucalyptus

8.

the study of fossils

a)

A. anthropology

b)

B. archeology

c)

C. paleontology

d)

D. dinosaurology

9.

a reliable source...

a)

A. may contain some biased information

b)

B. is written from a trustworthy point of view

c)

C. is usually a secondary source

d)

D. must be a primary source

10.

to learn answers to historical questions, historians...

a)

A. look for evidence

b)

B. seek out other historians with the same point of view

c)

C. make guesses about what they think might have happened

d)

D. interview individuals who know about significant historical periods

11.

an example of a secondary source would be

a)

A. a ship's records

b)

B. an explorer's journal

c)

C. the biography of a pharaoh

d)

D. an arrowhead found at a dig site

12.

an object made by people used to learn about the past

a)

A. fossil

b)

B. artifact

c)

C. computer

d)

D. brain

13.

something that shows proof that something is true

a)

A. brain

b)

B. jury

c)

C. evidence

d)

D. trial

14.

an unreasoned, emotional judgement about people and events

a)

A. lies

b)

B. point of view

c)

C. bias

d)

D. scholarly

15.

to present someone's work as your own without giving that person credit

a)

A. cheating

b)

B. stealing

c)

C. plagiarizing

d)

D. violating