Old Stone Age Quiz 1

A fossil is the remains of a long-ago organism

• True

• False

• A fossil is written

• A fossil is a human tool

An artifact is a human made object

• True

• false

• An artifact is the remains of a long-ago organism

• An artifact does not exist.

Which of the following is a characteristic of the CULTURE of the early Homo Sapiens?

• They lived during the Old Stone Age

• They could exercise and create marathons

• They built cities that are still around today

• They buried their dead.

East Africans migrated to the Sahara around 100,000 years ago

• They needed more farmland

• The Ice Age began

• The Sahara changed into an oasis and had the plants and water needed to survive

• They wanted more opportunities around the ocean.

Where did the Paleolithic people migrate when they first left Africa?

• South America

• North America

• Australia

• Southwest Asia

People began to travel across a land bridge between Asia and North America

• Effect of the Ice Age

• Effects of a drought

• Effects of human overpopulatoin

• Effects of artifact creation and cave art.

The images found in the Lascaux Cave contain about ______ paintings.

• 40,000

• 50,000

• 2

• 600

The ability to create tools and weapons to make a society more successful shows the Paleolithic people were

• Nomads

• Ice Age Survivors

• Cave Men/Women

• Intelligent and adapting to new environments

Wooly Mammoths, Saber-Toothed Tigers, and Giant Ground Sloths were called _______

• Early Dinosaurs

• Extinct

• Megafauna

• Paleolithic pets

Dig up fossils and artifacts to study how people lived in different times.

• Archeologists

• Anthropologists

• Dentists

• Cave Research Professionals