An origin story is...

an attempt to explain the beginning of humanity, Universe

Match the artwork to the correct civilization and origin story.

Iroquois: The first people lived beyond the sky, the Earth.

Why did most origin stories begin as oral tradition?

Most origin stories were created before the writing

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1
_____ is a way of expressing very large and very small numbers to avoid using the many zeros.
Scientific revolution
Multiplication
Scientific notation
Spectroscopy
2
___________________ is the study of past events.
Astronomy
History
Cosmology
Biology
3
An origin story is...
an attempt to explain the beginning of humanity, Universe
a theory as to why the Universe is expanding.
the use of spoken language to pass down a people’s history.
a scientific explanation for how atoms formed.
4
Which is a strategy used to decide whether a concept should or should not be “trusted”?
claim testing
making claims
creating an origin story
guessing
5
Match the artwork to the correct civilization and origin story.
Greek: The first humans were created by the god Prometheus.
Judeo-Christian: God created the heavens and the Earth.
Iroquois: The first people lived beyond the sky, the Earth.
Chinese: The originator of the world was Pan Gu.
6
When scholars make conjectures, they are:
posing a theory supported by evidence.
asking questions to guide their research.
gathering and analyzing information.
making a hypothesis.
7
Which claim tester are you using when the claim is based on info you can observe, verify.
evidence
authority
logic
intuition
8
Why did most origin stories begin as oral tradition?
All origin stories were traditionally sung.
Origin stories did not begin as oral tradition.
All origin stories were written.
Most origin stories were created before the writing
9
The material for Big History draws from many ______; including geology, chemistry, & history.
claim testers
music styles
disciplines
scales
10
Arriving at a conclusion based on the credibility of a source is an example of using ____.
evidence
authority
logic
intuition
11
In Big History, ____ refers to the degrees perspective used to measure time, space, and size.
complexity
Goldilocks Conditions
threshold
scale

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