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PRIMARY – 5
Mid- Year Exam
Revision File
Multiple Choice Questions.
1. The Michigan Open Book Project began in _____ as part of a grant from the Michigan Department
of Education.
(A) 1994 (B)2004 (C)2014
2. One of the benefits of using a Digital SS Textbook is _____.
(A) It is digital (B)It is temporary (C) easily delete
3. Most of _____ are open-ended questions.
(A) Supporting Questions (B) Compelling Questions (C)Requesting Questions
4. ________ are the basis for the sections within a chapter. That means that these supporting questions
are the content around which the sections in a chapter are about.
(A) Supporting Questions (B) Compelling Questions (C)Requesting Question
5. Integrated means _____ things combined together.
(A)lost (B)important (C) separate
6. ______ helps us to organize our thinking about the place we are, and it helps us to understand other
places.
(A) Geography (B)History (C)Science
7. Studying _____ gives us some clues about the past but we can make some reasonable guesses.
(A)Geography (B)History (C)Science
8. _____ is like a witness, but, of course this eye-witness is not alive to answer our questions.
(A) Clue (B) Evidence (C)Artifacts
9. Any of the body that has been preserved through dehydration is called _______.
(A)fossils (B)mummy (c)tissues
10. Because of perspective, different historians often come to different ________even though they are
looking at the same evidence.
(A) conclusions (B)findings (C)answers
11. The biggest continent on the world is ______.
(A) Africa (B) Asia (C)Europe
12. Nile river is located in _____continent.
(A)Africa (B)Asia (C)Europe
13. There are ____ period in stone age.
(A)4 (B)3 (C)2
14. Stone Age was called because of the ______ that have been used at that time.
(A) Stone Tools (B)animals (C)plants
15. Every civilization starts near ______.
(A)land (B)water (C)trees
Fill in the blanks.
1. Historians use t______ to help aid in the understanding of the time frame in which the topic
under study has taken. timelines
2. Writing was invented in A____. Ancient history
3. F_______ are the remains of living things. Fossils
4. Human m_____ is the movement by people from one place to another with the intentions
settling temporarily or permanently. migration
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5. Asia is separated from A_______. Australia
6. The remains of things that were made, not the remains of living things are A___. Artifacts
7. E_____ suggests that these first humans hunted and gathered their food. Evidences
8. The earliest human humans lived in A________. Africa
9. Moving through g______ or open forests is fairly easy. grasslands
10. The story of human migration was aided by another fact called c_____.
climate change.

True/False
1. New Guinea and Tasmania were part of “super-Australia.” True
2. Three large islands of Indonesia – Sumatra, Java, and Borneo -- were connected to
Australia. False
3. Using “land bridges,” animals and plants could move from continent to island and back.
False
4. Borneo has tigers and gorillas those also live in Vietnam, India, and other countries of
South and Southeast Africa. False
5. New Guinea has kangaroos and opossums those also live in Australia. True
6. Nearly mammals in Sulawesi are found nowhere else in
the world. True
7. Many birds in Sulawesi, by contrast, are also seen in both Asia and Australia. True
8. Nearly two- thirds of trees in Australia are in just one family -- the Eucalyptus family.
False
9. Australia had a warmer climate during the Ice Ages. True
10. The Northern Hemispheric hunters and gatherers had warmer climate during Ice Ages.
Flase
Short Questions.
1. What is primary source? Give examples of it.
Primary Source - Evidence gathered from the actual site or the real people that lived through the
historical event is a primary source. Example- Photographs, Eyewitness accounts, Artwork created
by those who watched the event, Artifacts, Fossils
2. What is secondary source? Give example of it.
Secondary sources are details recorded after an event occurs, and these documents are recorded by
someone who was not actually at the event. Example- An article written by a newspaper reporter, A
retelling of a story, Interpretation of artifacts and written records
3. What are the tools used by historians to know the pieces of evidences?
There are tools used by a historian:
- questions
- argument building based on evidence
- a willingness to change based on new evidence
4. What are 5W questions? Give examples.
5W questions – Who
What
When
Where
Why
Examples….
5. What is Social Studies according to Michigan?
Social Studies is defined as the integrated study of just four of all of those subjects
-civics (which includes law and political science), economics, geography,history.
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6. What is prehistory?
Prehistory is a time of no written records which
makes it really difficult to determine exactly what life was like then.
7. How many large sheets of ice? Where are they?
2, Greenland and Antarctica
8. What is the difference between push factor and pull factor?
circumstance that pushes someone out of region, circumstances that pull someone to another region.
9. Who determine the Age of fossil and how?
Anthropologist determine the age of a fossil using a process called carbon dating.
10. When and where did the Iceman, Otzi find by whom?
Iceman, Otzi was found in 1991 in Europe, high in the mountain along the border between Austria
and Italy by hiker.
11. What is the meaning of Otzi?
Wet mummy.
12. What is natural mummy?
That is one in which humidity is retained in individual cells. The body tissue is elastic and suitable
for performing detailed scientific investigations.
13. What provide a snapshot of Stone Age life in Europe of the Iceman?
The Iceman with his complete clothing and equipment provides a snapshot of Stone Age life in
Europe.
14. What have been used as clue to prehistory?
The great clues to prehistory are in the form of art. Artifacts found are often sculptures, jewelry,
masks, and drawings. Cave Art has also been used to help understand life during prehistoric times.
15. How many ices age were there? When was the last ice age ended?
There were five great Ice Ages with the most recent one ending around 10,000
years ago.
16. How many periods are there in stone age? Explain.
3, Paleolithic Period- Old stone age, Mesolithic Period – Middle Stone Age, Neolithic Period – New
stone age.
17. Why the plants in Australia are different from other continents?
Australia is dry and far from other land. As a result, many of its plants are different from plants in
other continents.
18. Why the birds in Sulawesi are seen in both Asia and Australia?
Sulawesi was not connected to either Asia or Australia. Many birds in Sulawesi, by contrast, are also
seen in both Asia and Australia because birds can fly and crossing a little bit of ocean is no big deal.
19. What are the differences between the continents during sea level low and went up?
Different islands ended up with different plants and animals
20. What is Ice Age?
The Ice Age which is a period of extreme cold.