Prehistory Review, Grade 6

What was the MOST significant technological breakthrough of the Paleolithic Era?

• the ability to create fire
• the ability to domesticate animals and crops
• cave paintings

The process of supplying water to grow plants and take care of animals is called ____________.

• Agriculture
• Vegetation
• Irrigation
• Domestication

Another name for the Stone Age is___________.

• Paleolithic
• Neolithic
• Old Stone Age 
• Flintstone Age

Where did the stone age begin?

• Australian Outback
• South America
• Rift Valley of East Africa
• China

People who wandered from place to place were known as______.

• Nomads
• Vagabonds
• Civilized People
• Immigrants

What does it mean to tame living things?

• Agriculture
• Gather 
• Alienate
• Domesticate

A long period of time before people developed systems of writing and written language is called _______.

• Prehistory
• Vegetation
• Artifact
• Archaeology

Plant life or total plant cover of an area is called____________

• Prehistory
• Vegetation
• Artifact
• Archaeology

A vast area of land that stretched from Asia to North America is known as_________.

• Migrate
• Vegetation
• Beringia
• Archaeology

To move from one place to another is known as________

• Migrate
• Vegetation
• Beringia
• Archaeology