SST Quiz

Q1) Why do people who grow crops have to stay in the same place for a long

time?

Q.2)List three ways in which hunter-gatherers used fire. Would you use fire for

any of these purposes today?

• ● For cooking

  ● For warding off wild animals

  ● For clearing forest

  ● As a source of light

• It lasted for around five thousand years i.e. from ten thousand

  years ago to five thousand years ago.

• In Greek it means the Middle Stone Age, lasted only around

  two thousand years i.e. from twelve thousand years back to ten thousand years

  back.

Q3) What is Neolithic Age?

• It lasted for around five thousand years i.e. from ten thousand

  years ago to five thousand years ago.

• In Greek, it means the Middle Stone Age, which lasted only around

  two thousand years i.e. from twelve thousand years back to ten thousand years

  back.

• It means old Stone Age and is derived from the Greek words

  ‘Palaeo’, meaning old, and ‘lithos’, meaning stone.

Q4) What are Microliths?

• They were marked for

  their fine edge. They were used as scrapers, chisels, etc.

• People who lived in the subcontinent for about two million years

  ago, they hunted wild animals, caught fish and birds, gathered fruits, roots, nuts,

  seeds, leaves, stalks, and eggs for obtaining food.

• The people who study human societies and cultures

  and their development.

Q5) What are Anthropologists?

• People who lived in the subcontinent for about two million years

  ago, they hunted wild animals, caught fish and birds, gathered fruits, roots, nuts,

  seeds, leaves, stalks, and eggs for obtaining food.

• Microliths were tiny or small stone tools. They were marked for

  their fine edge. They were used as scrapers, chisels, etc.

• The people who study human societies and cultures

  and their development.

Q6) What are Hunter-gatherers

• Microliths were tiny stone tools. They were marked for

  their fine edge. They were used as scrapers, chisels, etc.

• People who lived in the subcontinent for about two million years

  ago, they hunted wild animals, caught fish and birds, gathered fruits, roots, nuts,

  seeds, leaves, stalks, and eggs for obtaining food.

• The people who study human societies and cultures

  and their development.