Formal Assessment Unit 1 - 6th Grade Social Studies

What is a fossil?

• A fossil is the remains of a long-ago living animal or person

• A fossil is a type of tool

• A fossil is a written record

• A fossil is a type of tool

What is an artifact?

• An artifact is something made by a human being from a long time ago

• An artifact is a type of food

• An artifact is a written record of someone's life

• An artifact is the remains of an animal from a long time ago.

How did the Ice Age help people move from Asia to the Americas?

• It increased the amount of food in North America

• It allowed people to travel in boats from Asia to North America

• It encouraged people to leave the desert

• It created a land bridge between Siberia (Asia) and North America.

Which answer below is a characteristic of culture (Remember what culture is) (How we live) of some early humans?

• They were able to run long distances

• They built big cities

• They buried their dead people in some way

• They lived during the Paleolithic Age

Why did people leave East Africa to go to the Sahara around 100,000 years ago?

• They needed more farmland

• An ice age had begin in East Africa

• The Sahara had turned into an OASIS.

• They wanted to move closer to the ocean

Which of the following answers describes Hunter-Gathers?

• Lived in fixed areas with big family groups

• They followed the animals they needed for food

• The grew crops in various locations

• They were the first to domesticate plants and animals

Pick the answer that describes a primary source

• a climate map from prehistoric times created by a scientist of today.

• a cave painting created by a Paleolithic person

• a textbook on the lives of early humans

• a novel describing events in the life of an imaginary early human

Which of the following is an artifact?

• a fossilized skull of a human

• footprint of a chimp

• arrowhead made of stone

• a frozen acorn

Which word describes how we live? It describes our language, clothing, and other aspects of human life?

• culture

• artifacts

• technology

• government

What did Paleolithic people use to make their tools?

• glass

• iron

• gold

• stone