Grade 6 Social Studies Chapter 1

hunters and gatherers

• members of Homo sapiens who spent many hours a day searching for food

• individuals who primarily engage in agriculture and farming

• people who rely solely on modern technology for food production

• groups that live in urban areas and depend on supermarkets for sustenance

Paleolithic era

• The earliest period of the Stone Age

• A period characterized by the use of bronze tools

• The time when agriculture first began

• A phase of human evolution marked by the development of language

prehistory

• the period of time before writing

• the time of ancient civilizations

• the era of written history

• the age of dinosaurs

theory

• a proposed explanation of life

• a scientific fact that is universally accepted

• a random guess about an event

• a hypothesis that has been disproven

consequence

• a result of an action

• an initial cause of an event

• a random occurrence

• a planned outcome

humankind

• the human race

• the animal kingdom

• the population of Earth

• the species of mammals

archaeology

• the study of ancient artifacts and structures

• the study of things that earlier people left behind

• the study of human evolution

• the study of historical documents

society

• a group of people living and working under a set of rules and traditions

• a collection of random individuals with no common goals

• a temporary gathering of people for a specific event

• a group of people isolated from each other

fossil

• the preserved remains or traces of living things from the past

• a type of rock formed from volcanic activity

• a living organism that has not changed over time

• a method of dating ancient artifacts

extinct

• no longer found on Earth

• living in a specific habitat

• able to reproduce

• found in multiple locations