Responsible Historians
______ shows proof or an indication that something is true.
What is evidence?
The remains of animal and plant life that have been preserved are called what?
What are fossils?
A period of 100 years is called what?
What is a century?
What are two types of historical soures?
What are primary and secondary sources?
This theme of geography describes where a place is located.
What is location?
An unreasoned judgment about people or events is known as what?
What is bias?
Objects made by people in the past describe what?
What is an artifact?
The acronym "B.C.E" stands for what?
What is "Before Common Era?"
"First-hand pieces of evidence from people who saw or experienced the events" describes what?
What is a primary source?
This theme of geography describes all of the characteristics that give an area its own special qualities.
What is place?
Presenting the words or ideas of others as your own is called what?
What is plagarism?
This field studies the past by looking at what people left behind.
What is archaeology?
This acronym "C.E." stands for what?
What is "Common Era?"
Sources created after an event has taken place are called what?
What is a secondary source?
This theme of geography describes the relationship between people and their surroundings.
What is human/environment interaction?
A _____ is something that can be proven or observed.
What is a fact?
This field of study looks at prehistorical times by analyzing fossils.
What is paleontology?
A system for breaking time into units is called what?
What is a calendar?
An artifact from ancient Egypt is an example of what?
What is a primary source?
This theme of geography focuses on how and why people, goods, and ideas travel from one place to another.
What is movement?
An _______ is a personal belief or conclusion.
What is an opinion?
This field is the study of human culture and how it develops overtime.
What is anthropology?
Historians divide history into blocks of time known as what?
What are periods or eras?
A book written about World War II 50 years after it took place is an example of what?
What is a secondary source?
This theme of geography describes the common features that an area has.
What is region?