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What type of source is an interview of someone that was alive during the event?

Primary Source 

100

What is a Decade 

10 years of time

100

What are items left by Humans called?

Artifacts

100

What is a Primary Source?

It is a source that is from the time of the event

100

Explain why a website ending in .wiki is a no-go. 

Because anyone can edit a wiki cite.

200

What type of source is a textbook about history? 

Secondary Source

200

What is a century? 

100 years of time

200

what does an archaeology study? 

People from the past and the artifacts they leave behind. 

200

What is a Secondary source? 

A source that gives information second-hand and was not from the time of the event. 

200

Why is a .net a no-go cite?

because anyone can own and create a .net. 

300

What type of source is a diary of a teenager from the Great Depression? 

Primary Source

300

What is a Millennium? 

1000 years of time

300

What does an Anthropology study?

People and their languages and culture. 

300

What are examples of a primary source?

  • diaries, correspondence, ships' logs.
  • original documents e.g. birth certificates, trial transcripts.
  • biographies, autobiographies, manuscripts.
  • interviews, speeches, and oral histories.
  • case law, legislation, regulations, constitutions.
300

Why is a .com a website you need to be cautious when doing research? 

.com are businesses and their purpose is to make money.

400

What type of source is a documentary about the survivors of 9/11?

Secondary Source 

400

What is an Era? 

A broad period of time characterized by certain events or features.

400

What does Paleontology study?

Paleontology

400

What are examples of a secondary source? 

  • journal articles that comment on or analyse research.
  • textbooks.
  • dictionaries and encyclopedias.
  • books that interpret, analyse.
  • political commentary.
  • biographies.
  • dissertations.
  • newspaper editorial/opinion pieces.
400

Why is a .gov a trusted website? 

Many people fact the check and if they get the information wrong then they look bad.

500

What type of source is an autobiography of Harry Styles? 


Primary source. 

500

What were the big differences between the Gregorian calendar and the Julin Calendar?

Julin Calendar starts with the founding of Rome and the Gregorian started with the birth of Jesus. 

Julin calendar lost 1 day every 128 years

Gregorian lost 1 day every 1000 years.

500

Artifacts are normally what type of source?

Primary Source

500

What does Bias mean? 

When one opinion leans to one side of an argument then the other. 

500

Why do you need to worry about where you get your information on the internet?

because when doing research you need to have factual information or your argument or point is invalid.