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Question 1

What does a paleontologist do?

Answer 1

Investigates plants and animal remains/fossils

Question 2

What does a anthropologist do?

Answer 2

Studies human development

Question 3

What do cryptographers do?

Answer 3

Study, create and decipher codes and writing systems

Question 4

What do scientific experts do?

Answer 4

Use the sciences and scientific methods to provide evidence about such things

Question 5

Can a newspaper be both secondary and primary sources?

Answer 5

Yes

Question 6

What is a primary source?

Answer 6

Firsthand or direct from the source

Question 7

What is a secondary source?

Answer 7

Secondhand or analysis of a primary source

Question 8

What is a type of oral evidence?

Answer 8

Speeches

Question 9

Name some visual types of evidence

Answer 9

Photos, paintings, drawings, maps, videos, posters, charts or graphs

Question 10

Name some types of written sources

Answer 10

Legal documents, letters, diary written accounts, newspapers, magazines, charts or graphs

Question 11

What are some physical features

Answer 11

Buildings, vehicles, forensic, objects/artifacts, coins, jewelry, drawings, material, writings, pottery, machinery, technology and paintings

Question 12

What does O MAC PRU stand for?

Answer 12

O rigin
M otive
A udience
C ontent
P erspective
R eliability
U sefulness

Question 13

What does origin mean?

Answer 13

1. ) who made the source?

2. ) when and where was it made?

Question 14

What does motive mean?

Answer 14

1. ) what is the source?

2. ) what was its purpose?

Question 15

What does audience mean?

Answer 15

1.) who was the intended audience?

Question 16

What does content mean?

Answer 16

1. ) what is the source?

2. ) what evidence (information) does it give?

Question 17

What does perspective mean?

Answer 17

1. ) what was the context of the composer?
2. ) is it one sided?
3. ) what does it tell historians about the life, benefits, attitudes etc. of the time?

Question 18

What does reliability mean?

Answer 18

1. ) does it show bias?
2. ) is it subjective or objective?
3. ) is it complete or incomplete?

Question 19

What does usefulness mean?

Answer 19

1.) how can historians use it to learn about the past?

Question 20

What does a linguist do?

Answer 20

Studies the nature and structure of language