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Archaeology Jeopardy Challenge

Test your knowledge in archaeology with this fun Jeopardy game. Answer questions about fossils, artifacts, ancient cultures, and more to earn points. Are you ready to uncover the mysteries of the past?

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Archaeology Jeopardy Challenge

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  1. Jeopardy Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin.

  2. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy

  3. Definitions More Definitions Clues of Archaeology Food Jobs 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points

  4. Preserved remains of plants and animals long ago

  5. What are fossils?

  6. Beliefs and customs

  7. What is folklore?

  8. An object that was made and used by people long ago

  9. What is an artifact?

  10. Change

  11. What is adapt?

  12. To move from one place to settle in another

  13. What is migrate?

  14. A scientist who studies the lives and cultures of people from the past

  15. What is an archaeologist?

  16. A scientist who learns about the past by studying fossils

  17. What is a paleontologist?

  18. A system of ruling people

  19. What is a government?

  20. The practice of planting and growing crops

  21. What is agriculture?

  22. A spear that could be thrown

  23. What was the atlatl?

  24. The reason artifacts are important to archaeologists

  25. They offer clues to what life was like in the past

  26. How archaeologists know the Mississippians were skilled craftspeople

  27. They have found jewelry, pottery, and tools

  28. The way the Spanish explorers killed thousands of Native Americans

  29. They brought germs that caused diseases.

  30. The period in which Native Americans built mounds

  31. What was the Mississippian period?

  32. Reason the Native Americans developed the atlatl

  33. They needed to hunt smaller animals

  34. How the people of the Paleo-Indian period got food

  35. Hunted large animals and gathered plants to eat

  36. Foods brought to Alabama by the Native Americans

  37. What are corn and squash?

  38. The first group to plant and grow their own crops

  39. Who were the Woodland Indians?

  40. Planting and growing crops

  41. What is agriculture?

  42. Native Americans had to do this since the large animals died out (vocabulary word)

  43. What is adapt?

  44. The people who built the homes and meeting places

  45. Who were the men?

  46. The people who made the clothes, baskets, and pottery

  47. Who were the women?

  48. The celebration in which last year’s fire was put out

  49. What was the Green Corn Ceremony?

  50. The way the women got ready for the Green Corn Ceremony

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