WorksheetsIf Stones Could Speak Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 12mins
What is an archaeologist?
A person who studies the Earth
A person who creates artifacts
A person who studies history through excavating artifacts
A person who works at a museum full of old things
What is an artifact?
A historical item made by humans and left behind
A place that used to be occupied but now is empty
A person who studies archaeology
Which of the following could be considered an artifact? Select ALL that apply.
Plants
Tools
Language
Buildings
What is the meaning of the word "excavate?"
To make a discovery
To place an artifact in a museum
To study ancient history
To dig something up
Which of the following is NOT something that archaeologists do?
Take photos of what they discover
Use maps and charts to locate artifacts
Record all of their findings
Dig up items with their bare hands
Why do archaeologists have to be careful when they dig up artifacts?
So they don't break
They don't want to get dirty
They don't have to be careful - they can do whatever they want!
What is material culture?
Physical objects that have been left behind by a group of people
Something you use to build a city or empire
The language and ethnicity shared by people in one place
The types of plants and animals used by a group of people to live
How has archaeology changed over time?
There are more things to discover now than there used to be
You used to need multiple degrees but now you don't
We have new technology that can help when studying artifacts
No one wants to be an archaeologist anymore because it is boring
Which of the following text features do authors include in nonfiction texts? (Select ALL correct answers)
Photographs
Captions
Maps
Drawings/Illustrations
“No one stepped forward either to prove Mike wrong or to resolve the seeming contradiction in the Stonehenge timeline.”
What is the meaning of "contradiction?"
When two things are opposite one another
A problem that cannot be solved
When new evidence is introduced
When two things have the same meaning
Where is Stonehenge located?
Australia
Madagascar
England
The United States
Why was it difficult for early archaeologists to study Stonehenge?
They didn't have the right tools
There was no written record of what it was used for
There weren't enough people who studied archaeology
No one wanted to go to England to see it
What is a theory?
A fact that can never be proven wrong
A random guess that is not based on evidence
An idea that accounts for why something exists/was created
Something man-made that was left behind from other cultures
Who is Ramilisonina?
The author of If Stones Could Speak
An archaeologist from Madagascar
The man who discovered Stonehenge
A childhood friend of Mike and his team
What was the new theory of Stonehenge that Ramilisonina introduced?
The stones represented death/the dead
Stonehenge may have been used as a gathering place
Stonehenge was only used for decoration
Ramilisonina did not have a new theory
What do you do to find the central idea of a text? (Select ALL correct answers)
Read the entire text
Look up information about the author
Summarize each chapter/section
Identify important details
What is the purpose of a caption?
To tell readers more about the author
To explain who took a photo in a book
To explain more about what's happening in a photo
To divide long chapters into smaller sections
Which of the following is the BEST central idea for If Stones Could Speak?
Archaeology is a pointless field because everything has already been discovered.
Stonehenge is really old.
We will never really know what Stonehenge was used for.
Just because someone famous has an idea doesn't mean we should stop thinking on our own.
Which of the following is NOT a theory about Stonehenge?
It's where the King of England lived
It was a gathering place for feasts and celebrations
It was used as a prehistoric temple
What does Marc Aronson mean when he says "a new idea, a new way of thinking, can go from being dismissed to capturing the attention of the world"?
New ideas should never be studied because there is no more new information
If you are proven wrong once, you can never be proven right in the future
Everyone has to change their mind when new evidence is discovered
New ideas still have value even if other ideas were accepted in the past
