6th Grade Benchmark Review 2022

Which of these is the best example of a "surplus"?

• Extra food to be able to trade with neighboring communities
• The amount of food that hunter-gatherers could gather in a few days
• The building of houses in the New Stone Age
• The making of stone tools in the Old Stone Age

The use of skills or things to make life easier or solve a problem is known as_________

• technology
• specialization
• historian
• domestication

Which of these is true about the Paleolithic Age?

• Most people farmed for their food.
• The tools they had were made from stone.
• They were less healthy than people in the Neolithic Age.
• They lived in large groups.

_________came about because of ______________ and means that people have special or specific jobs that they do.

• Domestication, agriculture
• Religion, domestication
• Specialization, agriculture
• Specialization, domestication

What is NOT a type of technology that was used in the Old Stone Age?

• Fire-building
• Agriculture
• Hunting
• Stone tools

What does it mean to be a hunter-gatherer?

• You are nomadic.
• You have domesticated animals.
• You hunt for the grocery store and gather your food from it.
• You farm for your food.

The Paleolithic Age is another name for ________

• The Iron Age
• The Middle Stone Age
• The New Stone Age
• The Old Stone Age

Which of these would be a use of fire in the Old Stone Age?

• Clearing forests for crops
• Disposing of waste products
• Creating metal farming tools
• Driving away dangerous animals

Which of these technologies were used in both the Old and New Stone ages?

• Farming
• Fire
• Cave Art
• Domestication

These tools are most like tools used in the....

• Paleolithic Era
• Neolithic Era
• Agricultural Villages