> Other English exercises on the same topics: Geography, history, politics, literature... | Making portraits, describing | Jobs [Change theme]
	> Similar tests: - Describing a face - Vocabulary: let's stay in a hotel - Describing a picture - Geography-Vocabulary - Jobs - Jobs-Vocabulary - At the police station - Vocabulary: let's go to the shops
	> Double-click on words you don't understand

Contemporary Archeology

Twitter Share
English exercise "Contemporary Archeology" created by baboune16 with The test builder. [More lessons & exercises from baboune16]
Click here to see the current stats of this English test

Please log in to save your progress.

1. HammerSieveShovelI don't know and pickaxe make it possible to remove the layers of ground without archeological value.

2. Archeologists use small tools such as ragsbrushesspongesI don't know to carefully remove dirt from artifacts.

3. The photographyscannerLIDARI don't know has revealed the remains of 50,000 Maya structures from pyramids to whole cities.

4. The trowelbrushsieveI don't know is a wire mesh screen used to separate small artifacts from loose soil.

5. The mummy LIDARphotographyscannerI don't know is used for accurate forensic reconstruction of his body and face.

6. Archeologists can use a spirit leveltheodoliteplumb lineI don't know whenever they need to make a straight vertical line.

7. Infrared thermographyThermometerScannerI don't know is a remote sensing technique of detecting variations in ground temperature caused by subsurface archeological remains.

8. TheodoliteSpirit levelPlumb lineI don't know is an instrument used for measuring horizontal and vertical angles.It's used in mapping.

9. In archeology, brushsievetrowelI don't know is used to excavate in a unit when the space no longer allows the use of a shovel.

10. PhotographyComputerDrawingI don't know is essential to archeology and continues to have a critical role in the way in which the past is recorded.