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WorksheetsUnit 2 Early Human Vocabulary
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is agriculture?
a)
using soil to produce crops of food
b)
using humans to make advanced tools
c)
learning how to use fire
d)
digging up fossils and artifacts
2.
What is domesticate?
a)
a monkey call used by early humans
b)
teaching young people read and write
c)
to cook by fire
d)
to raise and tend to animals or plants so they're useful to humans
3.
What is government?
a)
a system of farming that produces mass quantities
b)
a system for creating order and providing leadership
c)
hunting together for the safety of all hunters
d)
a building used by early humans to worship
4.
What is a hunter-gatherer?
a)
an early human who is good at spearing
b)
someone who specializes in berry picking
c)
people that hunt and bring it back to their permanent village
d)
a human being who hunts animals and gathers plants for food, moving to a different location whenever such food becomes scarce
5.
What is irrigation?
a)
the watering of crops
b)
the watering of animals
c)
giving babies all the milk they need
d)
reusing crops for several seasons
6.
What is the Neolithic Era?
a)
the age of the first humans ever
b)
the time period that Neanderthals lived
c)
The New Stone Age - marked by the beginning of farming and development of pottery and weaving
d)
when art work became more popular
7.
What is a nomad?
a)
a group or person that has no set home but continually moves from place to place
b)
a spirit that brought good luck to hunters in ancient times
c)
an ancient farmer
d)
an ancient basket weaver
8.
What is the Paleolithic Era?
a)
a time period of meat eaters
b)
when the earliest humans collided with the Ice Age
c)
The Old Stone - a period that lasted from about 2.5 million to 8000 BCE
d)
the practice of determining the age of a fossil
9.
What is religion?
a)
a belief in farming
b)
the worship of a god, gods or spirits
c)
sources historians use to figure out the past
d)
a ruler of ancient times
10.
What is a social class?
a)
classes given by elders in early human times
b)
the hierarchy within a family structure
c)
a party given to honor the hunters upon their return
d)
a group of people with similar customs, backgrounds, training, and income
11.
What is specialization?
a)
a skill in one type of work
b)
when one person in an early settlement is more "special" than others and treated accordingly
c)
a farming technique
d)
a primitive type of tool used for cooking
12.
What is surplus?
a)
an ancient healing practice
b)
a process of burning wood for fires
c)
a type of corn eaten by early humans
d)
an amount produced in excess of what is needed - extra
13.
What is technology?
a)
a farming technique used by early humans
b)
computers, printers and smart phones exclusively
c)
people's application of knowledge, tools and inventions to meet their needs - anything that makes life easier
d)
the study of the earliest of humans
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