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Neolithic Revolution Vocabulary Practice

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does BCE stand for?

a)

Before Common Era

b)

Before Cultural Era

c)

Before Community Era

d)

Before Computer Era

2.

What is an artifact?

a)

a complex object that is used for work

b)

a small object that represents the passage of time

c)

a large object used for completing difficult tasks

d)

usually a simple object such as a tool or ornament showing human work and representing a culture or a stage in the development of a culture

3.

What is an archaeologist?

a)

a scientist who studies dinosaur remains

b)

a scientist who who studies animal history by digging up animal remains.

c)

a scientist who studies human history by digging up human remains and artifacts

d)

a scientist who is interested in the past

4.

What is a fossil?

a)

remains, impression, or trace of a non-living thing

b)

something that has been dead for a short period of time

c)

remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age, as a skeleton, footprint

d)

a shell

5.

Which is a Neolithic site in present day Turkey?

a)

Burzahom

b)

Catalhoyuk

c)

Mehrgarh

d)

Utnur

6.

What does CE stand for?

a)

Common East

b)

Commonly Era

c)

Common Eta

d)

Common Era

7.

Define migration

a)

to visit a new location

b)

movement from one country, place, or locality to another

c)

to remain in your homeland

d)

to move from one block to another

8.

Define Neolithic

a)

earlier part of the Stone Age when people used ground or polished stone weapons and implements

b)

later part of the Paleolithic era

c)

earlier part of the Mesolithic era

d)

later part of the Stone Age when people used ground or polished stone weapons and implements

9.

Define Neolithic Revolution

a)

the time in history when technology advanced

b)

a change in the way people fought in battle

c)

a fundamental change in the way people lived from hunting and gathering to agriculture led to permanent settle

d)

a fundamental change in industry

10.

Define nomadic

a)

remaining in one place no matter what

b)

having no fixed home and moving according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land

c)

visiting family members from time to time

d)

traveling on vacation in the summer

11.

Define obsidian

a)

Dark gray flint with white dotted inclusions

b)

a dark natural glass that forms when hot molten or semifluid rock from a volcano cools

c)

Light grey flint of trapezium shape with slightly convex sides, rectangular cross-section, convex cutting edge, finely polished blade

d)

Made of dense brown stone, divided by smooth notches into blade with hook shaped cutting edge,

12.

Define Paleolithic

a)

early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 5.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used

b)

early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used

c)

early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 7.5 million years, when advanced stone implements were used

d)

late phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 12.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used

13.

Define sedentary

a)

staying or living in many places

b)

moving to different places

c)

moving from place to place every 3 years

d)

staying or living in one place instead of moving to different places

14.

Define turning point

a)

the point at which a very insignificant change occurs

b)

the point at which a no change occurs

c)

the point at which nothing changes

d)

the point at which a very significant change occurs

15.

Define tribal

a)

a group of people that includes many families and relatives who have the same language, customs, and beliefs, and leader

b)

a group of people that includes 1 family

c)

a group of people that includes many families and relatives who have the different language, different customs, and differentt beliefs

d)

a group of people that has many leaders