History Revision

Match the following Historian to their role description.

• Studies the chemistry of the Earth

• Palaeontologist

• Studies hidden or ancient writing.

• Archaeologist

• Locates, dates and studies artefacts.

• Cryptographer

• Studies extinct organisms and fossils.

• Geochemist

• Researches human beings and societies

• Anthropologist

Organise these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Primary Source

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(b) Secondary Source

• Newspaper Articles

• Diary Entry

• Letters

• Interviews

• Poems

• Textbooks

• Artefacts

• Documentaries

• Websites

• Encyclopaedia

Match the artefact to the information historians could learn from it.

• How wars were fought

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• What animals or people lived long ago

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• About cultural practices or beliefs

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• What early tools were used for

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• What people ate

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Which of the following best describes relative dating?

• A) A method used to determine the exact age of an artifact or fossil.
  

• B) Techniques used to assess whether something is older than something else

• C) A process that uses carbon dating to find the exact year something was created.

• D) The study of historical documents to determine an artifact’s significance.

Which of the following best describes absolute dating?

• Methods used to work out the actual age of something or someone.

• A method that estimates the general time period of an artifact without exact years.

• A technique used to compare whether one object is older or younger than another.

• A way to classify historical events based on written records.

What is the term for 'the sequence in which historical events occur'?

• Archaeology

• Chronology

• Anthropology

• Geology

The term B.C. stands for

The term C.E. stands for

Identify whether each of the following qualities is a sign of a reliable or unreliable source.

Groups:

(a) Reliable Source

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(b) Unreliable Source

• Doesn't have source information

• Source can be changed or edited by anyone

• Author is an expert

• Other sources corroborate the information

• Source shows only one perspective

• Source was created a long time ago

• Includes source details (e.g. date, author)

• Source presents a balanced view on the topic

Radiocarbon dating is most effective for objects that are:

• Found in deep rock layers

• Millions of years old

• Made of metal

• Once-living materials up to 50,000 years old