Archaeologists Specialists And Timeline Quiz

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This is a post quiz to assess knowledge learned about Archaeologist specialists and the skill of reading a timeline.


Questions and Answers
  • 1. 
    Dates prior to the year 0 are referred to as :
    • A. 

      BC or BCE

    • B. 

      AD or CE

    • C. 

      BO or AC

  • 2. 
    A period of time that is 1000 years is called:
    • A. 

      Centurian

    • B. 

      Millennium

    • C. 

      Series

  • 3. 
    A period of 10 years is called a :
    • A. 

      Decade

    • B. 

      Century

    • C. 

      Centimeter

  • 4. 
    If someone lives to be a  _______________ old ,  then they will be 100 years old.
    • A. 

      Decade

    • B. 

      Millennium

    • C. 

      Century

  • 5. 
    The abbreviation for "in the year of the lord" is :
    • A. 

      A.D.

    • B. 

      ITL

    • C. 

      CE

  • 6. 
    The century that the year  376 BC is in is the :
    • A. 

      4th Century

    • B. 

      4th Century BC

    • C. 

      4th Century CE

  • 7. 
    The year 6 AD is in the :
    • A. 

      6th Century BC

    • B. 

      7th Century AD

    • C. 

      1st Century AD

  • 8. 
    The number of years between 500 BCE and 1000 CE is:
    • A. 

      500 years

    • B. 

      55 years

    • C. 

      1500 years

  • 9. 
    The number of years between 1960 CE and 2000 CE is:
    • A. 

      40 years

    • B. 

      30 years

    • C. 

      3960 years

  • 10. 
    How would the following years appear on an Ancient World Timeline? ( Hint put them in time order)   300 CE, 500 BCE, 250 BCE, O  and 1200 CE
    • A. 

      250 BCE, 500 BCE , 0 300 CE , 1200 CE

    • B. 

      300 CE, 500 BCE 0, 250 BCE, 1200 CE

    • C. 

      500 BCE, 250 BCE, 0 300 CE, 1200 CE

  • 11. 
    Archeologist teams are made up of many different specialists. One specialist focuses on digging up the earth to:
    • A. 

      study the patterns of movement by animals.

    • B. 

      Uncover or excavate the remains of ancient societies and cultures.

    • C. 

      find food from past cultures

  • 12. 
    Some specialists listen to the way people talk to determine if they came from the same geographic region or have the same language. These same kind of specialists also study and trace the movement of ancient people:
    • A. 

      Anthropologists

    • B. 

      Linguists

    • C. 

      Bronzologists

  • 13. 
    Plants , Plants and more Plants are what these specialists like to examine to identify where fossilized pollen came from and if the plants were wild or cultivated.
    • A. 

      Linguists

    • B. 

      Botanists

    • C. 

      Geologists

  • 14. 
     A Chemist whose specialty is archeology uses techniques like Carbon Dating to see how old something is.
    • A. 

      True

    • B. 

      False

  • 15. 
    The main function of a geologist is to determine how old a human is by looking at the size  and shape of skeletal remains.
    • A. 

      True

    • B. 

      False

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