Paleolithic and Neolithic Era Vocab Quiz

A time period when glaciers (ice sheets) covered much of the Earth

• Global warming

• Ice age

• New age

• Climate age

Pictures (or symbols) which represent a specific idea or concept

• Pictographs

• Lithographs

• Vocabulary

• Abbreviations

A strip of land that connects 2 larger land masses

• Island

• Land feature

• Peninsula

• Land bridge

A narrow body of water that separates 2 larger land masses

• River

• Strait

• Waterfall

• Bay

An early religious belief that describes how all living things have a "spirit" and are one with nature

(hint #1: think of "animating"--- or giving life to something)

(hint #2: the worship of nature)

• Christianity

• Atheism

• Animism

• Islam

An elephant-like creature (which is now extinct) that early humans hunted for is meat, fur, and tusks

• Saber-tooth tigers

• Woolly mammoths

• Wild boars

• Grey wolves

The movement of people from place to place---usually in search of food, resources, and better opportunities

(2 answers--- one of which you learned about in Civics last year)

• Sedentary

• Settlement

• Migration

• Immigration

"The Old Stone Age" when people were hunters & gatherers and lived in caves

• Paleolithic

• Neolithic

• Mesolithic

"Lithic" = __________________

• Metal

• Stone

• Rope

• Glass

A type of quartz rock (used by Paleolithic people) which can be easily shaped and chiseled into a pointed edge for making tools/weapons

(hint: it breaks off into "flakes")

• Flint

• Obsidian

• Granite

• Sandstone