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Studies Weekly Week 3 (Earliest Humans)

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When did humans begin to use bows and arrows?

a)

the Historic Age

b)

the Paleolithic Age (Old Stone Age)

c)

the Mesolithic Age

d)

the Neolithic Age (New Stone Age)

2.

Once humans learned to grow crops for food and settle in one place, they had time for _______________________.

a)

hunting larger animals

b)

arts and crafts like painting and pottery

c)

a more nomadic lifestyle

d)

gathering plants, nuts and berries for food

3.

What is an advantage of humans living near rivers and streams?

a)

taming animals

b)

hunting and gathering

c)

making fire

d)

transportation

4.

What did Louis Leakey find that made him decide to become an anthropologist and archaeologist?

a)

birds

b)

cave paintings

c)

stone arrowheads and tools

d)

a human body frozen in a glacier

5.

Which of the following has NEVER been found in a cave painting?

a)

trees

b)

snakes

c)

lions

d)

panthers

6.

Excavations at the town of Catalhoyuk in Turkey shows that the people who lived there possibly entered their houses this way--

a)

through underground tunnels

b)

by ladders

c)

by boats

d)

through the holes on the roof

7.

What sharp stone was most used by early people to make arrowheads, scrapers and knives?

a)

marble

b)

flint

c)

magma

d)

limestone

8.

Louis Leakey's discoveries showed that the oldest evidence of human life found so far comes from --

a)

Africa

b)

Asia

c)

North America

d)

Mexico

9.

Which of the following was NOT found with Otzi, the human body found preserved in a glacier?

a)

grains of wheat in a container

b)

a copper axe

c)

a fur hat

d)

a spear

10.

Anthropologists think humans probably first used fire to _____________.

a)

cook their food

b)

frighten away animals

c)

give light to their campsite

d)

keep themselves warm