Early Humans Quiz

What is the definition of: Paleolithic Age

• A time when everyone was afraid of the dark

• Early humans who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive.

• Known as the old stone age. Early Humans used stone tools and moved to survive.

• Known as the new stone age. Early humans stopped moving and started farming

What is the definition of: Neolithic Age

• An early ancestor of humans that developed in Africa & moved around the world

• Early humans who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive.

• Known as the old stone age. Early Humans used stone tools and moved to survive.

• Known as the new stone age. Early humans stopped moving and started farming.

What is the definition of: Nomad

• A person or group of people constantly moving from place to place to provide for basic needs. (Food, Shelter, Water)

• A strip of land connecting two larger land masses.

• Someone who is not mad

• A time of climate change when huge ice glaciers covered the Earth’s surface allowing the early humans to travel over the frozen water to new land.

Prehistoric people learned to __________ to their environment by making simple tools, using fire, and creating language.

• adapt

• ancestor

• migrate

• society

relating to the earliest period of the Stone Age (Old Stone Age)

• Neolithic

• Bronze

• Paleolithic

• Ancient Stone

a time when glaciers covered much of the land

• Bronze Age

• Ice Age

• Ice Field Era

• Snow Slide Age

to adapt an animal to live with humans for the advantage of humans

• specialization

• domestication

• technology

• agriculture

What is the time period before a written language was created?

• History

• Climate

• Prehistory

• Environment

How did man get his food during the Paleolithic Age?

• Growing crops
• Hunting and Gathering
• Stealing from others
• Scavenging

Which of the following was a major advancement for paleolithic people?

• Fire

• Writing

• Farming

• Domestication