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Module 2 (HMH)

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 6hrs 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

One way prehistoric people ________ to their environment was to create tools to process food.

a)

Rejected

b)

Adapted

c)

Tools

d)

Mesolithic

2.

Early people believed in ______ such as the thunder god.

a)

Tools

b)

Adapted

c)

Neolithic

d)

Gods

3.

During the __________ Era, people settled in new lands

a)

Mesolithic

b)

Neolithic

c)

Paleolithic

d)

Stone

4.

Land bridges allowed for __________ Age people to move around the world

a)

Neolithic

b)

Stone

c)

Mesolithic

d)

Bronze

5.

Using large animals greatly improved the ability of people to ______.

a)

Hunt

b)

Making Fire

c)

Making Tools

d)

Farm

6.

A relative who lived in the past

a)

Ancestor

b)

Stone Age

c)

Lucy

d)

Neolithic

7.

Process of changing plants or animals to make more useful to humans

a)

Domestication

b)

Farming

c)

Tools

d)

Ancestors

8.

Type of bone used to build early houses

a)

Fish

b)

Whale

c)

Mammoth

d)

Saber Tooth Tiger

9.

Which of these is a famous megalith?

a)

Rockhenge

b)

Stonehenge

c)

Bolderhenge

d)

Tacohenge

10.

The archaeologist who believed that bones found in east Africa in 1959 belonged to hominids was named ________.

a)

Donald Johanson

b)

Mary Leakey

c)

Randall Cunningham

d)

Chuck Bednarik

11.

What was important about Donald Johanson's discovery of Lucy in 1974?

a)

It pointed to a hominid's ability to walk upright.

b)

It pointed to a hominid's ability to walk on all fours.

c)

It pointed to a hominid's ability to make tools.

d)

It pointed to a hominid's ability to make shelter.

12.

The shift from food gathering to food producing is known as the ____________________.

a)

Mesolithic Era

b)

Ice Age

c)

Paleolithic Era

d)

Neolithic Era or Neolithic Revolution

13.

What effect did farming have on people in the Stone Age?

a)

Megaliths were made

b)

Permanent Settlements

c)

Tools

d)

A hunter-gatherer lifestyle

14.

What are huge stones used as monuments?

a)

Megalith

b)

Tools

c)

Adaptations

d)

Neolithic

15.

What is the period of time before written records called?

a)

Neolithic

b)

Mesolithic

c)

Prehistory

d)

Ice Age

16.

An early ancestor of humans is called a ____________.

a)

Society

b)

Hunter-Gatherer

c)

Migration

d)

Hominid

17.

An object or device used to perform a task is called a ________.

a)

Hominid

b)

Tool

c)

Society

d)

Agriculture

18.

The Old Stone Age is also known as the...

a)

Paleolithic Era

b)

Mesolithic Era

c)

Neolithic Era

d)

None of these

19.

A community of people who share a common culture is called a...

a)

Land-bridge

b)

Agriculture

c)

Domestication

d)

Society

20.

People who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive are known as...

a)

Hunter-Gatherers

b)

A Society

c)

The Ice Age

d)

A Migration

21.

To move

a)

Domestication

b)

Migration

c)

Agriculture

d)

Land-Bridge

22.

Long periods of freezing weather

a)

Stone Ages

b)

Neolithic Ages

c)

Ice Ages

d)

Mesolithic Ages

23.

A strip of land connecting two continents is called a....

a)

Land-Bridge

b)

Era

c)

Agriculture

d)

Prehistory

24.

The middle part of the Stone Age

a)

Paleolithic Era

b)

Neolithic Era

c)

Prehistory

d)

Mesolithic Era

25.

Which word means the same thing as farming?

a)

Domestication

b)

Agriculture

c)

Migration

d)

Adaptation