Unit 2: The Stone Age and Early Cultures

People who do not stay in the same place and travel looking for food and water are called  ___________?

• Artifacts
• Nomads
• Movers
• Farmers

What development enabled people to live as farmers?

• Warm clothing
• Domestication of plants & animals
• Pottery
• Wheel

Hunter-Gatherer’s were nomadic. What statement below is CORRECT?

• they found one place to live and settled there
• they planted crops on farms and raised animals 
• they lived in towns and traded with other peoples
• they wandered about following sources of food and water

What is another word for farming?

• Domestication
• Irrigation
• Agriculture
• Farming

What is the name of the period of time when glaciers covered most of the earth?

• Cold Age
• Ice Age
• Global Warming
• Hunter-Gatherer

Which of the following defines a hominid?

• an early ancestor of humans
• a fishhook
• a tool

Which of the following contributed most to early people's ability to produce food?

• hunting of wild herds
• the end of the Ice Age
• the ability to make fire

Which of the following best defines a megalith?

• huge stones used as monuments
• a temple made of wood
• a large mammal that lives in the Asia tundra

Which statement best defines the Neolithic Revolution?

• major battle fought between people of Asia and Africa
• the shift from food gathering to food producing
• the shift from food gathering to hunting

What effect did the invention of tools have on early humans?

• They required humans to stand close to animals
• They increased chances for survival
• They decreased chances for survival