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What states are in the Chesapeake Bay region?

• Virginia

• Delaware

• Arkansas

• Maryland

What is the first step in an archaeological investigation?

• dig up the skeleton

• use radar to locate the coffins

• grid and map the investigation site

• find an anrchaelogist

What were colonists in America usually buried in?

• pyramids

• animal fur

• their clothes

• a shroud

Which fact is NOT true about indentured servants in colonial America?

• They signed a contract to work for a specified number of years (usually seven).

• An indentured servant could be sold to another owner.

• Indentured servants were never children.

• The landowner paid the servants' passage to America.

What did the scientists use to view the captain's leading staff after removing it from the grave in a block of soil?

• X-ray

• ground penetrating radar

• gamma rays

• Carbon-13 Analysis

What are three facts about the first person of African heritage to live in Maryland?

• The man was from California.

• The man's name was Mathias de Sousa.

• The man was active in the Catholic Church.

• The man was an indentured servant.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.W.6.9A

What does a historian do?

• He or she preserves the bones that are found.

• He or she tries to find bones by digging in the ground.

• He or she studies or writes about events of the past.

• He or she is the person who studies past human life and activities using the bones, tools, and customs of ancient people.

What is the first step in excavating a grave?

• Make sure you have the correct tools.

• Take photographs of the soil stain of the grave shaft.

• Dig down six feet.

• Map out the area.

Why did the scientists at the Jamestown project think that the man in the grave was Bartholomew Gosnold?

• The man was buried with a captain's leading staff.

• The man's name was found in the grave shaft.

• The skeleton looked like Bartholomew Gosnold.

• The clothes on the skeleton matched the pictures of Bartholomew Gosnold.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.W.6.9A

What does a geologist do?

• He or she works with the structure, elements, and forces of the nuclei of atoms.

• He or she is responsible for the repair and preservation of museum articles.

• He or she studies the structure and composition ofo rocks that make up the Earth's crust.

• He or she studies the changes that take place underneath the surface of the Earth by using physics and mathematical models.