The Usborne Young Scientist: Archaeology

 

Word Classification

 

Just as archaeologists classify artifacts according to the material they are made of, you can classify words according to their make-up. In the box below you will find a list of archaeology-related words. Use them to write an answer to the questions that follow. Each word will be used only once.

 

Ziggurat	Mosaic	Sonic helmet	Silt	Lute
Shards	Cuneiform	Sieve	Volcanoes	Mummification
Aqueduct	Chemicals	Bacteria	Lyre	Fungi
Urns	Aqualung	Peat bogs	Carbon 14	Hieroglyphs
Trowel	Pollution	Theodolite	Potassium-argon
Pictograph	Strata	Thermolumiescense	dendrochronology

 

1. Which words name instruments you can play?

 

2. Which words have something to do with the soil?

 

3. Which words name structures?

 

4. Which words name forms of writing?

 

5. Which words name artifacts. but not buildings?

 

6. Which words name things which destroy evidences of the past?

 

7. Which words are tools used at a dig?

 

8. Which words name things which preserve clues from the past? 9. Which words name things which date artifacts?

 

10. Which words name tools used in an underwater dig?

 

"'Challenge: Make up your own classification question using the words in the box above. See if you can stump your partner.

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