Study for Vocabulary Quiz: 5th grade
Lesson 1.1: I understand the world around me
1. Culture: set of ideas, customs, values and traditions of a society
2. Historian : someone devoted to reconstructing and explaining past
events.
3. Historical sources: documents, artifacts,testimonials, and any
other material providing information about an event or a person.
4. Primary sources: materials produced at the time.
5. Secondary sources: materials created by someone investigating a
historic event.
6. Social sciences: sciences that study the behavior and organization
of humans in society.
7. Archeology: Science that studies, describes, and interprets
objects from the past.
8. Paleontology: science that studies fossil remains found
underground.
9. Geography: science that studies Earth, the location of places, and
how people interact with their environment.
10. Geology: Science that studies the composition of Earth over
time.