Topic 1 - test review prehistory/stone age

Which phrase defines the time called prehistory?

• before computers

• before the year 0

• before written records

• before the year 2000

which describes a way that early hunter-gathers got food?

• they used chickens to lay eggs

• they used tools to kill animals

• they grew crops on farms

• they grew seeds and nuts

What is an artifact?

• an imprint of a plant from long ago

• the remains of a person from long ago?

• a food prepared or eaten by humans

• object made or used by humans

What are geologists able to tell archaeologists about fossils?

• the beliefs of early people

• how early people lived

• how old they are

• what they were used for

What does an archaeologist study?

• how people act when they are together

• the things that people in the past left behind

• what happens if centrain chemicals are combined

• why people need centrain foods to survive

What happens during a migration?

• people stay in one place and home for many years

• people move place and homes with the seasons

• people move from their homeland to a new place

• people welcome new people ot their home

how did the last ice age affect human migration?

• it created land bridges where ocean had once been

• it required people to create new shelters

• it required people to form larger communities

• it required people to live closer together

Why did modern humans have to adapt?

• they had to make new cave paintings

• they had to adjust to new environments

• they had to change their belief system

• they had to move to Africa

How did the world change when modern humans populated it?

• there were humans only in Africa

• there were humans in most regions of the world

• there were humans just in warm places

Which group is thought to be the first to bury the dead?

• hunter-gathers

• Neanderthals

• Homo sapiens

• early stone age humans