Chapter 1 Vocabulary Quiz

What is "prehistory"?

• a proposed explanation about life

• a result of an action

• the period of time before people began to write

The use of wood to make spear shafts is an example of _______________

• migration

• technology

• artifact

What is a hominid?

• the human race

• any member of different species with humanlike features

• a human-made object

Archaeologists try to identify the makers of any __________ found at a site.

• adapt

• glaciers

• artifact

What do we call the members of Homo sapiens who spent many hours a day searching for food?

• hunters

• hunters and gatherers

• gatherers

During the Ice Age, sea levels dropped because water was trapped in ______.

• glaciers

• fossils

• theories

What is the term that describes the remains, such as bones, of humans and animals that were once alive?

• extinct

• fossils

• culture

It is possible that some early humans became extinct because they were not able to _____________ to a changing environment.

• role

• migrate

• adapt

If you belong to a group of people living and working under a set of rules and traditions, you are part of a ________.

• nomad

• culture

• society

Human patterns of ________________ often matched the movement of hunted animals.

• technology

• culture

• migration