Chapter 2 Review

Who is an archaeologist?

• a person who studies the world in which humans live.

• an expert who studies and records the past.

• an expert who studies the past by examining objects that people have left behind

• an expert who studies and creates maps of Earth's natural and human-made features.

What is prehistoric?

• the time or period before recorded or written history

• an expert who studies and records the past

• an expert who studies the past by examining objects that people have left behind.

• an object made by human beings before written records.

Who found Lucy?

• Mary Lane

• Donald Johanson

• Joe Donald

• Louis Leaky

What is history?

• The study of the future

• the study of the past

• the study of historians

• the study of people

Which of the following was NOT an early hominid?

• australopithecus

• homo habilis

• homo laplin

• homo erectus

• homo sapiens

What is TRUE about a homo habilis? Check all that apply.

• name means handy man

• brain was the size of a modern human

• Lucy was a homo habilis

• developed language

Where are we believed to have first lived?

• Australia

• North America

• Asia

• Africa

Why did it take so long for people to reach South America?

• They were scared of what was beyond the mountains

• They did not know there were land bridges until the ice started melting

• They wanted to stay in Africa

• They did not like South America

What is the process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans?

• migrate

• gatherers

• domestication

• hominid

What did the Bering strait allow early humans to do?

• The Bering strait allowed early humans to travel to the Americas

• It allowed early humans to travel to South America.

• It allowed early humans to travel to the Caribbean.

• It allowed early humans to follow penguins to North America