TIMELINE AND SOURCES OF HISTORY-EXTRA QUESTIONS-CLASS 6

Q1. What means history?

Answer:- The study of the human past is known as history

Q2. What means Era?

Answer:- 

A distinct period of time.

                    Or

 A period of time marked by significant events, often used to measure time in history.   

Q3. Who is Geologist?

Answer:- Ascientist who studies the physical features of the Earth , such as soil, stones , hills , mountains , rivers , seas and oceans.

Q4. Who is Palaeontologist?

Answer:- A Scientist , who studies the remains of plants,  animals and humans from millions of years ago in the form of fossils.

Q5. Who is Anthropologist?

Answer:- A Scientist , who studies human societies and cultures from the oldest times to the present.

Q6. What means Archaeologist?

Answer:- A scientist who studies the past by digging up remains left to behind by people, plants and animal such as tools, beads and bones.

Q7. What means Century?

Answer:- A period of 100 years.

Q8. What means Millennium?

Answer:- A period of 1000 years.

Q9. What do you know about Ice Age?

Answer:- A period when much of the earth was covered with ice, occuring over 1,00,000 years ago  to around 12000 years ago.

Q10. What calendar is commonly used worldwide?

Answer:- The Gregorian calendar.

Q11. Who studies an inscriptions?

Answer:-  Epigraphists

Q12. What is a Panchanga?

Answer:- A panchanga is a book of tables listing the days of each month , along with related astronomical data.

Q13. What are the sources of history?

Answer:- A place, person, text or an object from which we gather information about some past event or period period.

Q14. Who is the historian?

Answer:-  A person who studies and write about the past.

Q15. What is genetics?

Answer:- 

The branch of biology that studies how, in plants animals or humans certain features and characteristics get passed down from one generation to the next.

Q16. What means afterlife?

Answer:- A life that begins after death.

Q17. What is welfare?

Answer:- Health, prosperity and well-being is known as welfare.

Q18. What means Hamlet?

Answer:- A small settlement or small village.

Q19. What is a timeline?

Answer:- A tool to mark and understand the sequence of historical events.

Q20. Who is a chieftain?

Answer:- A leader responsible for the well-being of a community in early human societies.

 True or False 

1. Geologist study the remains of plants, animals and humans from millions of years ago.
2. The Gregorian calendar is commonly used worldwide.
3. The last Ice age lasted from over 100000 years ago to around 12000 years ago.
4. Early humans lived in permanent Stone houses.
5. Historians rarely solely on written records to study the past.

Answer:- 

1. False.    2. True.     3. True.    4. False.     5. False

 Fill in the Blanks

1. …………………..study human societies and cultures from the oldest times to the present.
2. The years before the birth of Jesus are now called……………………..
3. A……………….. is a book of tables which lists the days of each month alongwith related astronomical data.
4. The 3rd millennium CE began in………………. and will go up to……………….  
5. Early humans were mainly ……………. and ……………. for their survival.

Answer:

1. Anthropologists      
2. Before Common Era or BCE        
3. panchanga    
4. 2001, 3000
5. hunters, gathers

 Match the Following

Answer:        1. c          2. d        3. a        4. b

Multiple Choice Questions

Q1. Who studies the physical features of the Earth, such as soil, stone, and rivers?

 a) Anthropologists         b) Archaeologists       c) Geologists     d) Palaeontologists