WorksheetsWorld HIS Ch.1 What Does a Historian Do?
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
letters diaries and government records are examples of?
A. primary sources
B. secondary sources
ten decades grouped together is called?
A. century
B. millenium
C. year
D. lifetime
A decision reached after examination of evidence
A. conclusion
B. artifact
C. scholarly
D. anthropology
concerned with academic learning or research
A. smart
B. scholarly
C. not smart
D. artifact
the study of objects to learn about past human life
A. anthropology
B. paleontology
C. dinosaurology
D. archeology
the study of human culture and how it develops over time
A. anthropology
B. archeology
C. artifact
D. dinosaurology
plant or animal remains that have been preserved from an earlier time
A. spongebob
B. species
C. fossils
D. eucalyptus
the study of fossils
A. anthropology
B. archeology
C. paleontology
D. dinosaurology
a reliable source...
A. may contain some biased information
B. is written from a trustworthy point of view
C. is usually a secondary source
D. must be a primary source
to learn answers to historical questions, historians...
A. look for evidence
B. seek out other historians with the same point of view
C. make guesses about what they think might have happened
D. interview individuals who know about significant historical periods
an example of a secondary source would be
A. a ship's records
B. an explorer's journal
C. the biography of a pharaoh
D. an arrowhead found at a dig site
an object made by people used to learn about the past
A. fossil
B. artifact
C. computer
D. brain
something that shows proof that something is true
A. brain
B. jury
C. evidence
D. trial
an unreasoned, emotional judgement about people and events
A. lies
B. point of view
C. bias
D. scholarly
to present someone's work as your own without giving that person credit
A. cheating
B. stealing
C. plagiarizing
D. violating
