Hominids

Prehistoric humans are called _________________.

• Homo  anthroape
• Hominids
• Lucy
• Cavemen

_______________ specialize in studying the earliest hominids.

• Scientists

• Historians

• Zoologists

• Paleoanthropologists

The remains of an early hominid that lived more than 3 million years ago was discovered by an American paleoanthropologist who nicknamed her _________.

• Susan
• Donald
• Hillary
• Lucy

An animal that walks on two feet is called a _______.

• Moped
• Triped
• Biped
• Ape

Named Homo habilis in honor of its ability to make tools, this hominid was also called __________.

• Java

• Handy Henry

• Handy Tool

• Handy Man

Who was the first hominid to use fire?

• Handy Man

• Homo sapiens sapiens

• Homo erectus

• Wise Man

Lucy was a hominid known as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis.

• True

• False

Australopithecus afarensis lived before Homo erectus.

• True

• False

Neanderthals had a sense of ____________, they cared about one another and buried their dead.

• urgency
• pride
• community
• doom

Homo sapiens sapiens invented the spear thrower and the ________________.

• flame thrower

• bow and arrow

• musket

• wheel