Social Studies - Timelines and Primary/Secondary Sources

Question 1

What is a primary source?

Answer 1

First hand pieces of evidence from people who experienced the event.

Question 2

What is a secondary source?

Answer 2

A source created after the event or time period. They are created by people who are not part of the event.

Question 3

What does B.C. stand for?

Answer 3

Before Christ

Question 4

What does A.D. stand for?

Answer 4

Anno Domini

Question 5

What does Anno Domini mean?

Answer 5

The year of our lord

Question 6

What does B.C.E stand for?

Answer 6

Before Common Era

Question 7

What does C.E. stand for?

Answer 7

Common Era

Question 8

What is prehistory?

Answer 8

The era of history before writing was invented

Question 9

When did history start?

Answer 9

When writing was invented

Question 10

What is a timeline?

Answer 10

A timeline is a line marked off with a series of events and dates. They are used by historians to put events in order.

Question 11

What does an archaeologist do?

Answer 11

Study artifacts humans have left behind.

Question 12

What does an anthropologist do?

Answer 12

Study human development, culture, and religion.

Question 13

What does a historian do?

Answer 13

Use information from primary and secondary sources to document history.

Question 14

What does a geographer do?

Answer 14

Study natural and human made features of the Earth.

Question 15

What is bias?

Answer 15

An unfair preference or dislike for something.

Question 16

What is carbon-14 dating?

Answer 16

A method to find out how old a once living thing is by measuring the carbon left in a fossil.

Question 17

What does chronology mean?

Answer 17

In time order.

Question 18

What is a timeline?

Answer 18

A line with dates marked off in chronological order.

Question 19

What are the five themes of geography?

Answer 19

Place, location, human environment interaction, region, movement

Question 20

What is the acronym for the five themes of geography?

Answer 20

MR. HELP

Question 21

What does movement mean?

Answer 21

How people, ideas, exports, and imports enter/leave the spot.

Question 22

What is human environment interaction?

Answer 22

How we affect our environment and how the environment affects us.

Question 23

What is location?

Answer 23

Where it is on a map.

Question 24

What are the two types of location?

Answer 24

Absolute and Relative.

Question 25

What is absolute location?

Answer 25

An exact spot, like coordinates or an address.

Question 26

What is relative location?

Answer 26

A spot compared to another. (Example: my house is next to West Hollow Middle School.)

Question 27

What is region?

Answer 27

What parts of a place (county, state, etc.) is it in? How is it similar to others in that region?

Question 28

What is place?

Answer 28

What is it like when you get there? (Lakes, mountains, and landmarks are examples of place.)