Vocabulary
What's the Answer?
Might be on the Test
Types of Careers
Pot Luck
100
If you are concerned with academic learning or research your are____________ a. bias b. scholarly c. evidence d. anthropologist
What is scholarly?
100
At 10 years old, a person has lived an entire ___________ a. century b. decade c. year e. era
What is decade?
100
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.
What is the biography of a pharaoh?
100
One who studies objects to learn about past human life is a/an __________________ a. Archaeologist b. Anthropologist c. Paleontologist d. Artifactionist
What is an Archaeologist?
100
The years before Christ are known as B.C in the a. Gregorian Calendar b. Hebrew Calendar c. Julian Calendar d. Egyptian Calendar
What is the Gregorian Calendar?
200
If you have an emotional judgement about people and events, you might be______________ a. conclusion b. scholarly c. bias
What is bias?
200
The census collects ______________ about the people that live in the United States. a. evidence b. fossils c. credentials d. data
What is data?
200
A historian could use a painting on cave as a. a secondary source b. an example of biased evidence. c. an example of fossilized remains d. a primary source
What is a primary source?
200
If you study fossils you are a/an a. Paleontologist b. Anthropologist c. Biologist d. fossilist
What is a Paleontologist?
200
The phrase anno domini translates to a. after death b. in the year of our lord c. When Christ was living on earth d. The years after B.C.
What is in the year of our lord?
300
Firsthand evidence of an event in history is what type of source? a. secondary b. primary c. evidence
What is a primary source?
300
You can probably trust a ________________ that has been printed in an academic journal. a. artifact b. URL c. source d. point of view
What is source?
300
After you have gathered information, the next step in writing your report is to a. choose a good topic. b. check your sources. c. review reliable Internet sites. d. develop an outline.
What is develop an outline?
300
In order to get a job as a historian with National Geographic, I will need to show my a. point of view b. data c. credentials d. source
What is credentials?
300
General reference books include all of these but a. encyclopedias b. textbooks c. tabloids d. library books
What are tabloids? National Enquirer, People, and Star magazines are examples of a tabloid.
400
To present someone's work as your own, without giving that person credit, is called ___________________ a. credentials b. evidence c. plagiarism
What is plagiarism?
400
All of the following are measures of time except a. decade b. era c. conclusion d. century
What is conclusion?
400
The general term for an address of an online resource is called the a. website b. www c. URL d. edu
What is the URL?
400
I study human culture and how it develops; I am a/an a. Archaeologist b. Anthropologist c. historian d. millenniumist
What is an Anthropologist?
400
List three ways historians label time.
What is label groups of years, calendars, and time lines?
500
An __________________ part of history is reading historical accounts of long ago. a. found b. finite c. precise d. integral
What is integral?
500
A _______________________ discovered the remains of a very early human, called Lucy. a. Paleontologist b. Biologist c. Cosmetologist d. Artist
What is a Paleontologist?
500
This first step in a history project is to identify the ________________. a. facts b. opinions c. topic d. credentials
What is topic?
500
I am doing a research project, and I am using someone else's words as my own. I am _______________ a. plagiarizing. b. researching. c. using primary sources. d. using secondary sources.
What is plagiarizing?
500
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.
What is written from a trustworthy point of view?