SS Lesson 1 Vocab/Study Guide

Question 1

Archaeologists

Answer 1

An expert who studies the past by examining objects.

Question 2

Artifact

Answer 2

An object made or used by people in the past.

Question 3

Environment

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Feature

Answer 4

An important part or characteristic of something

Question 5

Geographer

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Historian

Answer 6

An expert who studies and records the past

Question 7

Prehistoric

Answer 7

Before written history

Question 8

Ritual

Answer 8

Relating to a ceremony, such as a religious ceremony

Question 9

Texture

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Document

Answer 10

A written work that contains important information

Question 11

Researcher

Answer 11

Someone who searches for information on a particular subject

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

Try to understand why events happen the way they did

Question 16

Name human-made features that a geographer might study

Answer 16

Towns, roads, bridges, and dams

Question 17

Name artifacts from the past that have been found near artwork displayed in parts of caves (2 answers)

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

Realistic

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