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Tools of the Historian and Early Man

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

People who study and write about the human past

a)

historian

b)

artifacts

c)

weather man

d)

teacher

2.

Scientists who hunt for evidence buried in the ground where settlements might have been

a)

anthropologist

b)

zoologist

c)

archaeologist

d)

physician

3.

Which of the following is an example of an artifact?

a)

leaves

b)

bones

c)

rocks

d)

weapons

4.

Which of the following is an example of a fossil?

a)

bowls

b)

spears

c)

shoes

d)

leaves preserved in a rock

5.

A scientist who studies how humans developed and how they related to each other is called a ?

a)

archaeologist

b)

zoologist

c)

anthropologist

d)

scientist

6.

People always on the move without a permanent home are called ?

a)

artists

b)

cavemen

c)

nomads

d)

farmers

7.

Which of the following is an example of technology?

a)

fire

b)

stone tools

c)

spears

8.

Neolithic means

a)

history

b)

language

c)

old stone age

d)

new stone age

9.

Paleolithic means

a)

Old stone age

b)

New stone age

c)

history

d)

language

10.

The development of different jobs is ?

a)

Bronze Age

b)

archaeology

c)

history

d)

Specialization

11.

The method of bringing water to a field to water crops is called ______________.

a)

revolution

b)

specialization

c)

irrigation

d)

domestication

12.

A sudden and complete change in the way people live is called a ___________________.

a)

specialization

b)

domestication

c)

irrigation

d)

revolution

13.

During Neolithic times, a place where people stayed or permanently lived was called a _______________.

a)

settlement

b)

nomad

c)

agriculture

d)

hunter-gatherer

14.

Surplus means ____________.

a)

not having enough

b)

having extra, or more than enough

15.

Domesticate means _______________.

a)

to bring water to your crops

b)

to stay in one place

c)

to tame or to bring plants and animals under human control.

d)

to look for food in the wild

16.

Which of the following are examples of agriculture, the cultivation of crops, or plants, otherwise known as farming. There is more than one answer.

a)

growing wheat

b)

planting fruit bushes

c)

hunting for bison

d)

searching for berries

17.

A person who gets their food by hunting and gathering wild plants is called a ____________________.

a)

archaeologist

b)

hunter-gatherer

c)

anthropologist

d)

historian