Unit 1 Vocab Pt. 1

Average weather in an area over a long period of time

• irrigation
• climate
• migrate
• adaptation

movement of people from one place to another

• prehistoric
• hunter-gatherer
• migrate
• domestication

one who searches for food by hunting or gathering

• natural environment
• hunter-gatherer
• nomad
• Paleolithic

Physical environment and the natural resources that are needed to survive

• natural environment
• prehistoric
• adaptation
• surplus

Characteristic that improves an individual's ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment.

• Paleolithic
• Neolithic
• specialization
• adaptation

Old Stone Age

• domestication
• Paleolithic
• prehistoric
• climate

before written history

• hunter-gatherer
• Neolithic
• prehistoric
• migrate

Imagine you've hopped into a time machine and traveled back, way back, before history was even recorded! What do we call this exciting time period?

• Renaissance

• Middle Ages

• Dark Ages

• Prehistoric Times

Let's travel back in time! Can you tell me which age 'Paleolithic' refers to?

• Old Stone Age

• New Stone Age

• Middle Stone Age

• Flintstone Age

Imagine you're a time traveler! You've just landed in the Paleolithic era. Can you guess what the nomadic lifestyle of the people around you looks like?

• They're living in large villages, where they're raising crops and livestock.

• They're constantly on the move, migrating from place to place.

• They're staying in one place, living in caves and under rock shelters.

• They're living in small villages and farming the land.