What is the study of the past based on what people left behind?
100
This is the definition of geography.
What is the study of the earth's physical and cultural features?
100
A period of ten years is called this.
What is a decade?
100
This is information gathered by someone who did not take part in or witness an event.
What is a secondary source?
200
These people use clues from various sources to learn about the past.
Who are historians?
200
This is a part or imprint of something that was once alive.
What is a fossil?
200
These are the two branches of geography.
What are physical and human geography?
200
A period of 100 years is called this.
What is a century?
200
Mountains are an example of this geographical feature.
What are landforms?
300
This is an account of an event created by someone who took part in or witnessed the event.
What is a primary source?
300
These are objects created and used by humans.
What are artifacts?
300
These are materials found in the earth that people need and value.
What are resources?
300
This is a long period of time marked by great events, developments, or figures.
What is an era?
300
The Poconos are an example of this.
What is a region?
400
This includes the knowledge, beliefs, customs, and values of a group of people.
What is culture?
400
A piece of pottery is an example of this kind of archaeological source.
What is an artifact?
400
This is the pattern of weather conditions over a long period of time.
What is climate?
400
Although we still use them, B.C. and A.D. have been changed to this.
What are B.C.E. and C.E.?
400
Water, stone, and animals in an area are examples of this.
What are resources?
500
This is one thing we can learn from the study of history.
Answers may vary...understanding of our world, other cultures, ourselves, how problems were/can be solved, how mistakes can be avoided, how things can be built/created, etc...
500
An imprint left by a plant is an example of this type of archaeological source.
What is a fossil?
500
This is the definition of environment.
What is all the living and nonliving things that affect life in an area?
500
A.D. means this.
What is "in the year of our Lord" or after the birth of Jesus?
500
The year that represents the earlier time in history, 1500 B.C. or 1750 C.E.?