7th Grade Prehistory Quiz

Nomadic means...

• people live in permanently in one place

• people went from one place to another

• people like agriculture

• people built huts

Humans moving to a new location to live there permanently or temporarily is...

• Migration

• Settlement

• Prehistory

• Paleolithic

Where do most historians believe the first humans lived?

• Asia

• Europe

• Africa

• The United States

Scientists who study artifacts are called what?

• biologists

• historians

• archaeologists

• chemists

What is prehistory?

• before people existed

• before writing existed

• before typing existed

• before spoken language existed

The Stone Age got its name because

• Stone Houses

• Used pretty rocks for money

• Rocky Fields

• Stone Tools

Finish the sentence Hunter-gatherers...

• hunted animals and gathered wood 

• hunted animals and gathered plants

• hunted animals and gathered bones

What materials did Stone Age humans use to make their tools?

• Stone

• Wood 

• Bone / Antler

• All of the above

The order in which event occur is __________ ___________.

• intervals

• decade

• chronological order

• multi-tier

What does BCE represent on a timeline?

• before Christ arrived

• Before common early tools

• Before common era

• before christ