SS Lesson 1 Vocabulary/Study Guide

Question 1

An expert who studies the past by examining objects

Answer 1

Archaeologists

Question 2

And object made or used by people in the past

Answer 2

Artifact

Question 3

All of the physical surroundings in a place, including land, water, animals, plants and climate

Answer 3

Environment

Question 4

An important part or characteristic of something

Answer 4

Feature

Question 5

An expert who studies and creates maps of Earth’s natural and human-made features

Answer 5

Geographer

Question 6

An expert who studies and records the past

Answer 6

Historian

Question 7

Before written history

Answer 7

Prehistoric

Question 8

Relating to a ceremony, such as a religious ceremony

Answer 8

Ritual

Question 9

The characteristics of an object’s surface that can be identified by feeling or viewing

Answer 9

Texture

Question 10

A written work that contains important information

Answer 10

Document

Question 11

Someone who searches for information on a particular subject

Answer 11

Researcher

Question 12

Social scientists are scholars who study

Answer 12

Human Society

Question 13

What activity would an archaeologist most likely do

Answer 13

Examine objects and artifacts

Question 14

People who study the past are most like

Answer 14

Detectives

Question 15

Why do historians read diaries and letters from the past

Answer 15

To find out what happened and why

Question 16

Name human-made features that a geographer might study

Answer 16

Towns, roads, bridges, dams

Question 17

Name artifacts from the past that have been found near artwork displayed in parts of caves

Answer 17

Lamps and tools

Question 18

Cave paintings show what kinds of roamed the earth

Answer 18

Animals

Question 19

Paintings of animals were more than humans

Answer 19

Real allistic

Question 20

Prehistoric tools were used to make paint by grinding colored minerals into powder and mixing it with animal fat to make many

Answer 20

Colors