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Early Humans Vocabulary

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the Paleolithic Era?

a)

a time period of meat eaters

b)

when the earliest humans collided with the Ice Age

c)

The Old Stone - a period from the beginning of human life to about 10,000 BCE

d)

the practice of determining the age of a fossil

2.

What is the time period before a written history was created?

a)

artifact

b)

nomad

c)

Prehistory

d)

Neolithic Era

3.

The era also known as the "New Stone Age".

a)

Mesolithic Era

b)

Neolithic Era

c)

Paleolithic Era

d)

Mesozoic Era

4.

A member of a group of people with no fixed home, who travel from place to place constantly to find food and water

a)

artifacts

b)

Nomad

c)

Domestication

d)

Paleolithic Era

5.

What does domesticate mean?

a)

To tame or train animals or plants to serve human needs

b)

A person that mostly eats berries and game meats.

c)

A person who studies the past.

d)

The first known group of people that domesticated animals.

6.

A historic object made or used by humans, such as a tool, ornament or pottery

a)

agriculture

b)

domesticate

c)

artifact

d)

nomadic

7.

Scientist who studies earlier peoples and cultures using artifacts and remains

a)

Climatologist

b)

Geologist

c)

Meteorologist

d)

Archaeologist

8.

The way of life of a given people at a given time, including language, behavior and religious beliefs, etc.

a)

carbon dating

b)

nomadic

c)

culture

d)

artifacts

9.

The production of food by farming crops and domesticating animals, also called farming

a)

prehistory

b)

agriculture

c)

domestication

d)

sedentary

10.

the later part of the Stone Age, also called the New Stone Age, from about 10000 to 5000 BCE

a)

Paleolithic Age

b)

Old Stone Age

c)

prehistory

d)

Neolithic Age

11.

another name for the Old Stone Age

a)

Paleolithic Age

b)

Neolithic Age

c)

New Stone Age

d)

history

12.

Method for telling the age of once-living material by measuring the amount of radioactive carbon remaining in it

a)

carbon dating

b)

artifacts

c)

prehistory

d)

culture

13.

A member of the group that includes human beings and earlier humanlike creatures

a)

Hominid

b)

Archaelogists

c)

nomadic

d)

carbon dating