WorksheetsEarly Humans
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What do Historians do?
a)
Learn about history
b)
Study and write about history
c)
Help dig up artifacts
d)
Help identify fossils
2.
What do archaeologists do?
a)
study and write about history
b)
make others understand cultures
c)
dig up and study artifacts
d)
find history interesting
3.
What is an artifact?
a)
something from the Stone Age
b)
traces of plants or animals perserved in rock
c)
weapons, tools, or other things dug up by archaeologists
d)
fossils
4.
What is an anthropologist?
a)
people who study how humans developed and how they relate to eachother
b)
a historian
c)
a person who studies about the past
d)
a person who writes about historical events
5.
What is the Stone Age?
a)
the name of tools that people made a long time ago
b)
historians believe that this is a time when animals roamed free
c)
historians use this name for anything that happened from 2000BC-200BC
d)
early period of human history-named for the tools and weapons people made
6.
What is the Old Stone Age?
a)
nomads that traveled the world
b)
the Paleolithic era
c)
stone tools and weapons
d)
adapting to environments
7.
What was the Paleolithic era like?
a)
hunter-gatherers worked to survive
b)
people were nomadic and the Ice Age was part of this era
c)
people learned to tame fire
d)
all are true
8.
What were some ways that people adapted in the Old Stone Age?
a)
They painted on cave walls and invented new technology to help make life easier
b)
made better gear for fishing and developed new kinds of boats
c)
made improvements to roads and helped eachother out
d)
went to rivers to get water and rest after hunting
9.
What is the Neolithic era?
a)
a time when wooly mamoths roamed the earth
b)
a time when people were nomadic and hunted
c)
a time when people learned to tame fire
d)
the New Stone Age -the beginning of farming
10.
What was the biggest change in the New Stone Age?
a)
people learned to farm and could live in the same place
b)
people learned to tame fire and cook better meals
c)
people lived in tents and fished alot
d)
People had plenty of water becasue the settled near rivers
11.
What does domesticate mean?
a)
to make something useful
b)
to use the wheel to improve mobility
c)
to tame animals and plants for human use
d)
making a home more comfortable
12.
Name two of the earliest known communities of the Neolithic era...
a)
Africa and Australia
b)
New Brunswick and Catal Huyuk
c)
Catal Huyuk and Jericho
d)
Jericho and Bruins Mar
13.
What is specialization?
a)
when people pass down lessons to their children
b)
when animals can help plow fields and get work done
c)
the use of technology to make life easier
d)
the development of different kinds of jobs
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