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Chapter 1 Vocabulary Quiz

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is "prehistory"?

a)

a proposed explanation about life

b)

a result of an action

c)

the period of time before people began to write

2.

The use of wood to make spear shafts is an example of _______________

a)

migration

b)

technology

c)

artifact

3.

What is a hominid?

a)

the human race

b)

any member of different species with humanlike features

c)

a human-made object

4.

Archaeologists try to identify the makers of any __________ found at a site.

a)

adapt

b)

glaciers

c)

artifact

5.

What do we call the members of Homo sapiens who spent many hours a day searching for food?

a)

hunters

b)

hunters and gatherers

c)

gatherers

6.

During the Ice Age, sea levels dropped because water was trapped in ______.

a)

glaciers

b)

fossils

c)

theories

7.

What is the term that describes the remains, such as bones, of humans and animals that were once alive?

a)

extinct

b)

fossils

c)

culture

8.

It is possible that some early humans became extinct because they were not able to _____________ to a changing environment.

a)

role

b)

migrate

c)

adapt

9.

If you belong to a group of people living and working under a set of rules and traditions, you are part of a ________.

a)

nomad

b)

culture

c)

society

10.

Human patterns of ________________ often matched the movement of hunted animals.

a)

technology

b)

culture

c)

migration