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Earth's Population

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does POPULATION mean?

a)

The number of people living in a country or area.

b)

The total weight of all the animals in the ocean.

c)

The amount of food one person can eat.

2.

What does CULTURE mean?

a)

The weather outside.

b)

The beliefs, traditions and practices of a group or civilization

c)

A channel for getting water from one place to another

3.

What is an AQUEDUCT?

a)

A type of fish.

b)

The number of people living in a country or area

c)

A channel for getting water from one place to another.

4.

The ancient people of India had to ADAPT to cycles of floods and droughts.

What does "ADAPT" mean?

a)

Continuous

b)

To remain the same

c)

Unchanging

d)

To change in order to survive

5.

Which statement is true about Ancient Sumerians?

a)

The river destroyed their crops.

b)

They were the first people to use boats with sails.

c)

They weren't able to grow enough food.

d)

They lived along the Nile River.

6.

What is the article "Ancient Civilizations" mostly about?

a)

People of the southeastern United States

b)

How ancient people lived and adapted to their environment

c)

How Mayans built reservoirs

d)

Chinese medicine made from plants

7.

Why did the Mayans build reservoirs?

a)

To clean their clothes

b)

To irrigate their land

c)

To trade with other groups of people

d)

To survive the dry months

8.

When did the ancient people of India plant their food?

a)

In the fall

b)

In the Spring

c)

During the winter cold

d)

During the summer floods

9.

Ancient Chinese civilizations

a)

made medicine from plants

b)

made weapons from clay

c)

planted crops in the fall

d)

were the first to make cloth from wool

10.

Ancient Mayans learned to avoid each of these except

a)

poisonous snakes

b)

crocodiles

c)

jaguars

d)

game in the forest