Early Humans Key Concepts Review - Paleolithic Era
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
time periods with consistently freezing temperatures throughout the world when many humans died
Ice Age
prehistory
stone age
archaeologist
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Due to cold temperatures, early humans of the Paleolithic Age had to move to follow their food sources. What is this movement called?
fossils
domestication
migration
glacier
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
How did some early humans successfully migrate from Asia to North America?
They built boats out of wood and traveled across the ocean.
They swam the short distance between the two continents.
They walked across a land bridge after glaciers lowered sea levels.
They floated on chunks of ice and hopped across glaciers.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which statement about early human migration is FALSE?
People migrated because there were long periods of warming and cooling average temperatures.
People migrated because there were long periods of drought and little rainfall.
People migrated because there were changing landscapes such as the growth and shrinking of forests, grasslands, and deserts.
People migrated because they wanted to find new lands and build their own countries.
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Why is it difficult for historians to know exact facts and dates about prehistory?
The Ice Age destroyed all of the artifacts left behind by early hominids.
there are no written records from this time since people didn't know how to speak yet
It is impossible to determine if the land bridge theory is true.
Ancient cave paintings do not reveal any information about early humans.
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which group of people studies prehistory based upon what earlier people left behind?
geneticists
archaeologists
linguists
dentists
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
The bones of a number of humans were found in one location. Using this evidence, scientists concluded that early humans probably
made tools
invented fire
spoke language
lived in groups
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