What is History

History & Social Science helps us to ___________ the people and societies from the past and how we are connected.

• understand

• forget

• ignore

is a person who researches, analyzes, interprets, and writes about the past by studying historical documents and sources.

• Archaeologist

• Historian

• Paleontologist

• Archaelogy

is a person who studies the past by examining objects that people have left behind.

• Historian

• Paleontologist

• Archaeologist

• History

a part or imprint of something that was once alive.

• artifact

• fossil

• the people and societies from the past and how we are connected.

• hammer

What was the name of the first element that was created during the Big Bang?

• carbon

• oxygen

• iron

• hydrogen

What was the first life form in the ocean called?

• snakes

• amphibians

• dinosaurs

• bacteria

the study of the past based on written records

• history

• archaeology

• prehistory

the study of the past based on what people left behind

• History

• archaeology

• historian

• archaeologist

the knowledge, beliefs, customs, and values of a group of people

• culture

• artifacts

• history

• values

an account of an event created by someone who took part in or witnessed the event

• secondary source

  
  

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  encyclopedia

• primary source

• fossil