Review Unit 1, Chapter 1 Lessons 1.1 - 1.3

What was a characteristic of the last Ice Age?

• glaciers covered much of northern Europe and North America

• humans built cities

• the seven continents drifted together

• all life on earth was killed by ice

When was the last Ice age?

• 20,000-12,000 BCE

• 18,000-10,000 BCE

• 10,000-2,000 BCE

• 1920-1928 CE

What is a fossil?

• a type of gasoline in modern cars

• a lava rocks like obsidian that were used as tools by paleolithic humans

• remains, such as bones and teeth, of animals and organisms that lived long ago

• human made objects such as stone tools

What are artifacts?

• old glaciers from the last Ice Age

• alien rocks like meteors that crashed on earth

• the remains of humans that fossilized

• human-made objects such as stone tools

How old are the oldest homo sapien skulls, which indicates our particular human species is "relatively" recent, since life began hundreds of millions of years ago.

• 2.5 million years old

• 10 million years old

• 195,000 years old

• 90,000 years old.

On which continents to the first humans evolve?

• Europe

• North America

• Africa

• Asia

What does paleolithic mean? (as in Paleolithic Age)

• old stone

• new stone

• medieval

• renaissance

What is NOT an element of culture?

• law and government

• religion or spirituality

• music and language

• having 10 fingers

Paleolithic humans created cave paintings. This is an example of...

• music

• science

• culture

• language

What is one reason anthropologists and archaeologists study the past (from 1.2, The Elements of Culture)

• So that we can hopefully go back in time and change the past.

• So that we can be judgmental and talk about how stupid and uncivilized people used to be.

• So we can better understand the present and predict the future.