6th Grade Unit 1 Ch. 2

Match the following

• a relative who lived in the past

• tool

• The time before there was writing

• chronological

• handheld object that helps with a task

• Prehistory

• related to time

• hominid

• an early ancestor of humans

• ancestor

Match the following

• community of people with common culture

• distribute

• to divide among a group of people

• Paleolithic Era

• Old Stone Age

• hunter-gatherers

• people who hunt animals + gather plants

• society

What does "chron" mean?

• before

• time

• old

• same

What does "pre-" mean?

• before

• time

• old

• same

What does "Paleo" mean?

• before

• time

• old

• same

What does "homo" mean?

• before

• time

• old

• same

What does "migrate" mean?

• move to a new place

• long periods of freezing weather

• a strip of land that connects two continents

• the Middle Stone Age

What does "Ice Age" mean?

• move to a new place

• long periods of freezing weather

• a strip of land that connects two continents

• the Middle Stone Age

What does "Land Bridge" mean?

• move to a new place

• long periods of freezing weather

• a strip of land that connects two continents

• the Middle Stone Age

What was the Mesolithic Era?

• move to a new place

• long periods of freezing weather

• a strip of land that connects two continents

• the Middle Stone Age