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Stone Ages

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
How were paleolithic men different from paleolithic women?
a)
The paleolithic men were smarter
b)
The paleolithic women were smarter
c)
The paleolithic men and women lived in caves
d)
The paleolithic men hunted and the women gathered
2.
Why did the hunter-gatherers migrate?
a)
to find more resources
b)
to follow the herds of migrating animals
c)
to discover new lands and better food supplies
d)
all of the above
3.

The oldest human remains have all been discovered in what general region?

a)

Southern Europe

b)

Northern Asia

c)

East Africa

d)

South America

4.

The first tools that humans created were made out of what material?

a)

wood

b)

bronze

c)

stone

d)

copper

5.

What continent did humans LAST settle?

a)

North America

b)

Australia

c)

South America

d)

Antartica

6.

Which of the following is a way that people adapted to the Ice Age?

a)

They developed more efficient boats to help them travel to distant areas

b)

They made houses out of mammoth bones

c)

They created the earliest forms of magic

d)

They developed early pots that let them move water from place to place

7.

Making plants and animals useful to humans is called what?

a)

agriculture

b)

surplus

c)

irrigation

d)

domestication

8.

The time before writing is known as...

a)

ice ages

b)

history

c)

prehistory

d)

neolithic

9.

Another name for farming is ...

a)

megalith

b)

Settling

c)

Agriculture

d)

Nomad

10.
What made the Neolithic Age different from the Paleolithic Age?
a)
Settled communities
b)
Increased Agriculture
c)
Pottery & Weaving skills
d)
All of the above
11.
What development enabled man to live as farmers?
a)
Warm clothing
b)
Domestication of plants & animals
c)
Pottery
d)
Wheel
12.
The time period before history was recorded is known as -
a)
Renaissance
b)
Middle Ages
c)
Dark Ages
d)
Pre-history
13.
Paleolithic
a)
Old Stone Age
b)
New Stone Age
c)
Middle Stone Age
d)
Flintstone Age
14.
Neolithic 
a)
Old Stone Age
b)
New Stone Age
c)
Middle Stone Age
d)
Flintstone Age
15.
Scientists believe that the earliest humans evolved in and migrated from which continent?
a)
Europe
b)
North America
c)
Asia
d)
Africa
16.
How did the Caveman explain their stories?
a)
Wrote a book
b)
Wrote in the dirt
c)
Wrote on cave walls
d)
Used sign language 
17.
True or False: The caveman hunted in groups because it was safer 
a)
true 
b)
false 
18.
Farming was a good thing because....
a)
It helped them stay alive longer
b)
It let them stay in one place
c)
It gave them plenty of food
d)
All of the above 
19.

The study of the past based on what people left behind

a)

History

b)

Archaeology

c)

Geography

d)

Economics

20.

A part of imprint of something that was once alive.

a)

Artifact

b)

Fossil

c)

Nomad

d)

Paleolithic

21.

objects created and used by man

a)

Artifact

b)

Fossil

c)

Nomad

d)

DNA

22.

the name of the time period before recorded history; has 3 eras

a)

Stone Age

b)

Ice Age

c)

Migration

d)

Settlement

23.

Old Stone Age, rocks used as tools, migration on land bridges

a)

Paleolithic Era

b)

Mesolithic Era

c)

Neolithic Era

24.

Innovation of better tools, canoes are made, bow and arrow

a)

Paleolithic Era

b)

Mesolithic Era

c)

Neolithic Era

25.

Farming and Fire invented, New Stone Age

a)

Paleolithic Era

b)

Mesolithic Era

c)

Neolithic Era

26.

People who hunt animals and gather food from nature

a)

Hunter-Gatherer

b)

Nomad

c)

Farmer

d)

Agriculture

27.

long periods of freezing weather

a)

Ice Ages

b)

Land Bridge

c)

Agriculture

d)

Prehistory

28.

movement from one area to another for settlement

a)

Migration

b)

Hunter-Gatherer

c)

Fossil

d)

Vacation

29.

a strip of land connecting two continents; usable when water levels drop

a)

Land Bridge

b)

Land Rover

c)

Ice Age

d)

Stone Age

30.

changing plants and animals to make them more useful to humans

a)

Domestication

b)

Agriculture

c)

Hunter-Gatherer

d)

Fossil

31.

an early ancestor of humans

a)

hominid

b)

paleolithic

c)

megalith

d)

society

32.

What was the Neolithic Revolution?

a)

change from hunting and gathering for food to producing food

b)

change from not having religion to being religious

c)

a battle fought between Asia and North America

d)

change from gathering food to hunting food

33.

By 9000 BC, humans lived on all continents except

a)

Asia

b)

Africa

c)

North America

d)

Antarctica

34.

What is NOT an effect of the Neolithic Revolution?

a)

permanent settlements

b)

population grows

c)

new kinds of food

d)

the ice ages

35.

What were early tools used for?

a)

for travelling great distances

b)

for processing food and hunting

c)

for crossing land bridges

d)

for making fire

36.

All of the following are features of the Neolithic Era EXCEPT...

a)

farming.

b)

towns and villages.

c)

permanent settlements.

d)

hunter-gatherers.

37.

Which transformation led to the forming of permanent settlements, such as towns and villages?

a)

the Neolithic Revolution

b)

the end of the Ice Age

c)

advances in stone tool technology

d)

major human migrations

38.
Man migrated from Asia to America via what route?
a)
The Pacific Ocean
b)
The Atlantic Ocean
c)
The Bering Land Bridge
d)
The North Sea
39.

In the Neolithic Era, people learned to polish stones to make saws and drills

a)

true

b)

false

40.

In the Mesolithic Era, people learned to make all of the following EXCEPT

a)

bows and arrows

b)

fishing hooks

c)

saws

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