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WorksheetsEarly Humans
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
How were early humans different from apes?
a)
They had less hair
b)
They stood upright and their hands could make tools
c)
They wore clothes
d)
They could talk
2.
Early humans were hunter-gatherers. This means?
a)
They found their food growing wild, hunted, or fished
b)
They grew crops
c)
They traded for food at the market
d)
They were only scavengers
3.
What is a fossil?
a)
An object from the past made by humans
b)
Anything old you dig up from the dirt
c)
Dinosaur bones in a museum
d)
Hardened remains or imprints of something once living
4.
Which is not a benefit of fire for the early humans?
a)
Allowed them to hunt in dark
b)
Allowed them to cook their food
c)
Allowed them to make tools
d)
Allowed them to move to cooler climates
5.
Which type of human could use fire, but not create it?
a)
Homo Habilis
b)
Homo Erectus
c)
Cro Magnon
d)
Southern Ape
6.
Which type of human buried their dead with ceremony and created cave art?
a)
Southern Ape
b)
Homo Erectus
c)
Cro Magnon
d)
Homo Habilis
7.
What did most Homo Sapiens paint in their cave art?
a)
hunters and animals
b)
people
c)
houses
d)
landscapes
8.
This time period is when early man made tools from stone and bone?
a)
Stone Age
b)
Ice Age
c)
Bronze Age
d)
Prehistoric Times
9.
What was the Ice Age?
a)
A period when early people made tools from stone and bone
b)
A period when stronger weapons were created
c)
A period when dinosaurs died out
d)
A period when much of the earth's water was frozen in glaciers
10.
The theory that suggests early man began in Africa and moved to new places is called?
a)
The Great Migration theory
b)
Populating the Earth theory
c)
Out of Africa theory
d)
The Exploration theory
11.
How were Neanderthals and later Homo Sapiens different from other earlier humans?
a)
They lived in East Africa
b)
They had larger skulls, bigger brains, and buried their dead with ceremony
c)
They were hunter-gatherers
d)
They stood upright and used tools
12.
This early human crossed land bridges during the Ice Age to other continents?
a)
Homo Habilis
b)
Homo Erectus
c)
Southern Ape
d)
Handy Man
13.
Later humans made clothes from?
a)
cotton
b)
silk
c)
wool
d)
animal skins
14.
Cro Magnon built two types of homes. Tee Pees were used during which season?
a)
Winter as permanant homes
b)
Summer as mobile homes for following herds
c)
Fall for cooler nights
d)
Spring to keep out mosquitoes
15.
These types of human could speak, would dye and tattoo their bodies, and made jewelry?
a)
Homo Habilis and Australopithecus
b)
Homo Erectus and Homo Habilis
c)
Neanderthal and Upright Man
d)
Cro Magnon and Homo Sapiens
16.
What is an artifact?
a)
The remains of something that was once living
b)
The remains of objects that were made and used by humans
c)
Dinosaur bones
d)
an imprint of a leaf
17.
How did Cro Magnon draw humans in cave art?
a)
They drew them with much attention to detail.
b)
They drew them with squid ink.
c)
They drew them with different facial expressions.
d)
They drew them as stick figures.
18.
What did Cro Magnon use to paint in the caves?
a)
Watercolors
b)
Acrylic paints
c)
Iron oxide and Manganese
d)
Dyes from plants
19.
Which are NOT innovations used by early humans during the Stone and Ice Ages?
a)
stone axes
b)
fish hooks
c)
bow and arrows
d)
iron weapons
20.
In what country were the first cave painting discovered?
a)
France
b)
Spain
c)
Bosnia
d)
Germany
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