WorksheetsPrehistory
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
People who follow herds of animals and have no permanent homes are called ____________.
a)
nomads
b)
fishermen
c)
merchants
d)
domestication
2.
The name for the New Stone Age
a)
Paleolithic Age
b)
Mesolithic Age
c)
Neolithic Age
d)
Information Age
3.
What is the first period in Prehistory?
a)
Metal Age
b)
Neolithic
c)
Palaeolithic
d)
Middle Age
4.
In the Palaeolithic Period, humans were...
a)
Sedentary
b)
Ugly
c)
Nomads
d)
Sedentary and nomads
5.
When did Prehistory end?
a)
when hominids appeared
b)
When fire was discovered
c)
When writing was invented
d)
When Christ was born
6.
How many periods are there in Prehistory?
a)
five
b)
seven
c)
four
d)
three
7.
Who discovered agriculture?
a)
Paleolithic People
b)
Metal age people
c)
Neolithic people
d)
prehistory people
8.
Which word means the time period between the New and Old Stone Age, when people lived mostly on hunting and gathering, but had begun to domesticate animals?
a)
prehistory
b)
Paleolithic Era
c)
Neolithic Era
d)
Mesolithic Era
e)
Ice Age
9.
Most prehistoric people were nomadic meaning they built permanent houses to live in.
a)
True
b)
False
10.
What important discovery separates the Mesolithic era from the Neolithic era?
a)
Fire
b)
Agriculture
c)
Weapons
d)
Tools
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