Learning to Farm and Raise Animals (2.2)

What is it called when humans moved to a new or distant lands?

• gathering

• farming

• migration

What types of people practiced migration?

• farmers

• nomads

• villagers

Which is a characteristic of a society that is nomadic?

• farming

• technology

• movement

Climate change resulted in...

• growing seasons becoming longer

• water travel becoming more common

• the building of dikes and canals for watering crops

Why did hunter-gatherers move around?

• They wanted better soil for crop-growing.

• To follow seasonal plants and animals to hunt.

• They needed more land for raising animals.

Domestication means to...

• develop technology to help with farming

• move from place to place following seasonal grasses

• raise crops and animals for food

Which of these is an example of early technology?

• the development of language

• domesticating animals

• making tools

What did some archaeologists believe about early cave paintings of animals?

• they honored the hunters

• they honored the spirits of plants

• they honored the spirits of the animals they hunted

Why did people settle in river valleys?

• so they did not need to practice slash and burn

• so water was available to grow crops

• to adapt to the changing climate

What is the meaning of the term "slash and burn"?

• cutting and burning trees to plant crops

• planting seeds to grow crops

• the watering of crops