Section 1.1-1.4

Question 1

Historian

Answer 1

People who study events in the past.

Question 2

Timeline

Answer 2

Line marked off with a series of events and dates.

Question 3

Chronology

Answer 3

List of events in the order in which they occurred.

Question 4

Period

Answer 4

Length of time singled out because of a specific event or development that occurred during that time.

Question 5

Prehistory

Answer 5

Time before humans invented writing

Question 6

History

Answer 6

Written history

Question 7

Primary Source

Answer 7

Information that comes directly from a person who experienced an event.

Question 8

Artifacts

Answer 8

Objects made by human beings

Question 9

Secondary Source

Answer 9

Information about an event that does not come from a person who experienced the event.

Question 10

Bias

Answer 10

Unfair preference for or dislike of something.

Question 11

Archaeology

Answer 11

Scientific study of ancient cultures through the examination of artifacts and other evidence.

Question 12

Anthropology

Answer 12

Study of humankind in all aspects, especially development and culture.

Question 13

Fossils

Answer 13

Bones and other remains that have been preserved in rock.

Question 14

Absolute Location

Answer 14

Place’s exact position on Earth in terms of longitude and latitude.

Question 15

Relative Location

Answer 15

Location of a place in relation to another place.

Question 16

Place

Answer 16

Mix of human and nonhuman features at a given location.

Question 17

Region

Answer 17

Area with at least one unifying physical or human feature.

Question 18

Movement

Answer 18

How people, goods and ideas get from one place to another.

Question 19

Human-environment Interaction

Answer 19

How people affect their environment and how their environment affects them.