“Becoming Human” Scavenger Hunt
Name: ______________________________
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Instructions: Open the Becoming Human website: www.becominghuman.org Launch the
interactive documentary and navigate through the various components of it to answer the
following questions. Good Luck!!!
Click on “Evidence”
1. What is “Scientific Method”? (2 marks)
2. The Scientific Method usually begins with an ______________________. (1 mark)
3. Describe in order the process of the “Scientific Method”. (5 marks)
4. What areas in the world have the most significant fossil sites? (3 marks)
a.
b.
c.
Take a walk through a “Paleontological Dig”. (Step 3 at bottom of page).
5. What did you find most interesting about touring through the dig? (2 marks)
Take a walk through a “Profiling Fossils”. (Step 4 at bottom of page).
6. What kind of questions would an anthropologist ask when profiling fossils? Describe
how those questions might be answered. (3 marks)
Take a walk through a “The Dating Game”. (Step 5 at bottom of page).
7. Describe how researchers chronologically date fossils? (2 marks)
8. Define the following (6 marks)
a. Relative Dating
b. Law of Superposition
c. Biostratigraphy
d. Absolute Dating
e. Radiometric Dating
f. Radiocarbon Dating
Click on “Anatomy”
9. What is bipedalism? (1 marks)
Click on “Lineages”
10. Provide general information for following on the Human Family tree; (5 marks)
A. Afarensis, Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, Homo Neanderthals, Homo Sapiens.