Core Concepts and Skills in Social studies Grade 6

Question 1

What state do you live in?

Accepted Answer

Maine

Question 2

What calendar begins on the year Jesus was thought to have been born.

Accepted Answer

Christian

Question 3

Some examples of secondary sources are letters, diaries, interviews, and photos.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 4

What is a fossil?

Accepted Answer

once living remains that have been preserved in the ground

Question 5

What calendar begins when the world was created?

Accepted Answer

Jewish

Question 6

What is a decade?

Accepted Answer

period of 10 years

Question 7

How many continents and oceans do we have together?

Accepted Answer

11

Question 8

Your textbook, My World History, uses the Christian calendar.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

What county do you live in?

Accepted Answer

Kennebec

Question 10

What is an atlas?

Accepted Answer

a collection of maps

Question 11

What do you call the time before writing?

Accepted Answer

Prehistory

Question 12

Approximately how many decades old are you?

Accepted Answer

1

Question 13

What is a glossary?

Accepted Answer

A dictionary of vocabulary words in the back of your book

Question 14

Check all items below that are good social studies reading strategies.

Accepted Answer

Take notes on the side, Read and reread, Underline, circle or highlight important text

Question 15

Approximately what year was writing invented?

Accepted Answer

3200 BC

Question 16

What country do you live in?

Accepted Answer

United States

Question 17

What continent do you live on?

Accepted Answer

North America

Question 18

What is a primary source?

Accepted Answer

information of an event from someone who experienced it

Question 19

What do you call an object made by a human being in the past?

Accepted Answer

artifact

Question 20

B.C.E. means "before Christ existed."

Accepted Answer

False

Questions 20