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Worksheets6W SS Early Humans/Civilization Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 40mins
Which of the options below IS NOT one of the 6 components of CULTURE?
Economy
Government
Technology
Agriculture
Because early humans developed irrigation systems, they...
could keep the soil for their farmland moist, which meant more crops could grow to feed the community.
had to walk further to get water to drink.
worried that the animals wouldn't have any water to drink.
never needed to grow crops again!
The early humans who lived in the earliest civilizations like Catal Huyuk chose to settle near water, as well as the mountains, because...
the scenery was beautiful.
no one else had already settled there and it was peaceful.
there were many animals and fish wandering around to be a food source.
they both provide protection from predators.
When using timelines, we use the labels BC/BCE and AD/CE. We understand that dates labeled with BC/BCE... (CHOOSE TWO ANSWERS)
come after the "0" year and show the period we are living in right now.
come before the "0" year and show the period of time we call "prehistory."
stand for Before Christ/Before Common Era.
stand for Before Christmas/Before Classic Era.
What century was I born in, if I was born in 1675?
14th century
15th century
16th century
17th century
True or False: Because someone who writes a secondary source writes AFTER an event has taken place, he/she can show a more well-rounded, less-biased interpretation of the past.
TRUE
FALSE
True or False: A primary source runs the risk of being biased because they are firsthand accounts of someone's viewpoint or memory of an event.
TRUE
FALSE
Choose the correct type of source for this example: "I read a letter that a US military man wrote to his wife from when he served in the war in Afghanistan.
PRIMARY SOURCE
SECONDARY SOURCE
Choose the correct type of source for this example: A book whose author researched the events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and presents a new reason/theory for his assassination.
PRIMARY SOURCE
SECONDARY SOURCE
What is a characteristic of a nomadic society?
farming
livestock
technology
movement
Which is an example of early technology?
developing language
making hunting/building tools
worshiping gods/idols
drawing cave paintings
Which is the following is an activity performed by hunter-gatherers?
collecting wild plants
growing grain crops
raising sheep for wool
training mules for plowing
What is agriculture?
raising livestock for food
planting seeds to raise crops
making tools for farming
using plant materials for clothing
A specialization is a skill in how many kinds of work?
none
few
one
many
Around 500,000 BC/BCE people learned to make and control...
animals
fire
crops
tools
Archeologists have found artifacts to prove that the earliest humans lived in__________________ and first migrated to the ___________________.
Africa, West
Africa, East
Asia, West
Asia, East
During the Ice Age, a land bridge allowed for early humans to travel from Asia to what other continent?
Europe
Africa
North America
South America
Complete this analogy:
artifact : human-made object :: fossil :
remains of something that was once alive
job-related object
remains of pottery
food-related object
Complete this analogy:
migration : moving around :: irrigation :
heating a room
watering land/crops
developing language
wandering around
Hominid is a term we use to describe...
early humans that only ate meat
early humans that walked on two feet
early humans that developed fire
early humans that protected their own land
