Past, Present, and Future Quiz

Grade 1 · Social Studies · Quiz

Show what you know about how we talk about different times.

Questions

1. Which word means time that is happening right now?

   1. past
   2. future
   3. present
   4. history
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   Answer: present

   The present is the time happening right now, in this moment, today.

2. Yesterday is an example of the _____.

   1. future
   2. present
   3. past
   4. timeline
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   Answer: past

   Yesterday already happened, which means it is in the past. The past is all time before right now.

3. A timeline shows events in the order they happened.

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   Answer: True

   A timeline lines up events in order from earliest to latest to help us see when things happened.

4. Long ago, people rode horses instead of driving cars. This shows how things have _____ over time.

   1. stayed the same
   2. changed
   3. disappeared
   4. grown smaller
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   Answer: changed

   When things are different from how they used to be, we say they have changed. Cars replaced horses as the main way to travel.

5. Which of these is in the FUTURE?

   1. Last summer
   2. This morning
   3. Tomorrow
   4. Long ago
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   Answer: Tomorrow

   Tomorrow has not happened yet, which makes it part of the future.

6. History is the study of things that will happen in the future.

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   Answer: False

   History is the study of the PAST, not the future. Historians look at what already happened long ago.

7. A historian is a person who studies the _____.

   1. weather
   2. future
   3. past
   4. oceans
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   Answer: past

   A historian is someone who studies the past by looking at old records, photos, and stories.

8. The past, present, and future are all ways of talking about time.

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   Answer: True

   Past, present, and future are the three main ways we talk about time in relation to right now.

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