7th Grade Social Studies Post Test (SY18-19)

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20 questions
Direction: Select the option that best answers each question. Feel free to use headphones to listen to the recording of the test.
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Maps are representations of ________.

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Historians have four tools that they use to organize information. They include significance, ______________, temporal frames, and special scales.

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True or False: People’s purposes, knowledge, and perspective (or point of view) shape their maps.

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Which answer is one of the correct meanings of the word “history”?

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What is the definition of an external consistency?

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In answering the historical problems, historians analyze the available evidence by doing two things; the first is paying attention to who created the evidence. What is the second?

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Long-patterns of meeting these basic social needs results in the creation of social institutions such as economy, ___________, family, education, religion, and language.

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Using _______to organize the past helps to analyze turning points of humans history and how different eras relate to each other.

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The discipline of history is based on the investigation problems and using what to support accounts of the past?

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Historical problems or questions help historians select, analyze, and organize what?

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How do we learn about humans and human ancestors in pre-historic times, before there was writing?

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Which of the following was not reason for humans to migrate?

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Which part of the natural environment did not shape the way people lived in the Paleolithic Era?

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Why did many humans begin to shift from full-time foraging to living in settled villages?

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The questions __________ and historians ask of these artifacts shapes our understanding of the past.

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Language is believed to have developed how long ago?

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What is a forager?

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The end of the Paleolithic Era coincided with the last Ice Age, know as the Great Thaw, happened 10,000 years ago. Which of the following was not a result of the Great Thaw:

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As new societal problems emerged because people were living in villages, what part of society started to develop to respond to these problems?

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Which of the following is not a characteristic of an early human society?