Ch 1 Early Man

Definition of culture:

• the practice of growing plants and raising animals for food

• unwritten account of events that is passed down through generations as stories and sonds

• all of the events that contribute to your way of life

• remains such as bones & teeth of organisms that lived long ago

Why are megafauna extinct (no longer around)?

• They were over-hunted by paleolithic man

• The climate changed and became too hot for them

• A giant meteorite struck the Earth causing an ice age

• a super virus infected them and killed them all

An object created by and used by living things.

• Artifact

• Culture

• Archeology

• Climate

The process of changing plants and animals to make them more useful to humans.

• migrate

• culture

• tools

• domestication

A strip of land that early humans used to migrate across two continents.

• land bridge

• geography

• domestication

• hominid

Moving to follow animal herds or better climates is known as:

• Modification

• Intergration

• Doestication

• Migration

Knowledge, beliefs, customs, and values of a group of people.

• Environment

• Climate

• Culture

• Artifact

Average weather conditions in a certain area over a long period of time.

• Environment

• Climate

• Culture

• Artifact

What is one of the most important discoveries of early man?

• Fire

• Wheel

• Electricity

• Bones

The era also known as the "New Stone Age".

• Mesolithic Era

• Neolithic Era

• Paleolithic Era

• Mesozoic Era