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Ch 1 Lesson 3 Agricultural Revolution

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What eventually replaced hunting and gathering as the main source of food?

a)

specialization

b)

farming

c)

irrigation

2.

What is the organized growing of food on a regular basis?

a)

farming

b)

irrigation

c)

systematic agriculture

3.

People settled in ______ located near fields and water sources.

a)

governments

b)

villages

c)

rivers

4.

What does mixing copper and tin form?

a)

metal

b)

gold

c)

bronze

5.

What was found in Çatalhüyük that is evidence religion was becoming important to people?

a)

shrines

b)

rooftop houses

c)

domesticated animals

6.

Where did the first civilizations arise?

a)

mountains

b)

near the sea

c)

river valleys

7.

What was the most important and long-lasting effect that the Agricultural Revolution had on people’s lives?

a)

People started eating food

b)

The population grew at a faster rate, and people settled into communities.

c)

People stopped hunting and gathering.

8.

As food became more abundant and fewer people were needed in the fields, some people ____

a)

became government workers

b)

domesticated animals

c)

became artisans

9.

Why was writing important?

a)

for poetry

b)

for record keeping

c)

to share songs

10.

Taming an animal for use by humans is called

a)

specialization

b)

technology

c)

domestication

11.

What was one effect of the Agricultural Revolution?

a)

the population grew

b)

an alphabet was invented

c)

number of hunters-gathers grew

12.

Why did people begin growing crops?

a)

unable to find large herds of animals to hunt

b)

Ice Age ended and temperatures began to rise

c)

Ice Age stopped for a time and nomads started villages