WH1.2a-b Paleolithic Era

Multiple Choice

What does Paleolithic mean?

• Old Stone Age

• The Age of the Lion

• New Stone Age

• The Age of the Dinosaur

Quiz Answer: Paleolithic means

"Old Stone Age."

Neolithic means "New Stone Age." Paleolithic Era was before the Neolithic Era.​

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Multiple Select

Which describes Homo sapiens?

• Only people from Spain

• The people on the earth today

• People who evolved in Africa 100,000 to 400,000 years ago

• The first humans

Quiz Answer: "Homo sapiens" are us - the people on the earth today!

Homo sapiens evolved in Africa 100,000 to 400,000 years ago.

Multiple Choice

Where and when did Homo sapiens first evolve?

• In Africa 5,000 years ago

• In Europe 100,000 to 400,000 years ago

• In Africa 100,000 to 400,000 years ago

• In the Americas 5,000 years ago

Quiz Answer: Homo sapiens first evolved in Africa 100,000 to 400,000 years ago. We then migrated across all the other continents.

Multiple Choice

Why are hunter-gatherers called nomads?

• Hunter-gatherers have no modern features.

• Hunter-gatherers move from place to place to find food.

• Hunter-gatherers stay in one place to grow crops.

• Hunter-gatherers live in large family groups.

Quiz Answer: Hunter-gatherers are nomads. Nomads move from place to place to find food.

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Hunter-gatherers in the Paleolithic era did live in large family groups called "clans." However, living in clans is not why they are called nomads.

Multiple Select

How did Homo sapiens adapt to their environment in the Paleolithic Era?

• Plant crops

• Made tools

• Used fire to stay warm and cook food

• Moved from place to place to hunt and gather food

Quiz Answer: Homo sapiens during the Paleolithic Era lived in a difficult physical environment.

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To adapt, they learned to make tools, they used fire to stay warm and cook, and migrated to new places to hunt and gather food.

Multiple Select

Which skills did hunter-gatherers learn during the Paleolithic Era?

• Cave art

• Alphabets and systems of writing

• Large farming

• Oral language

Quiz Answer: During the Paleolithic Era, Homo sapiens learned to communicate through oral language. We also learned to make cave art to record and describe our experiences.

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Humans created alphabets and written language​s and began to farm (grow food) later during the Neolithic Era.