WorksheetsStudent's Friend Unit 1 World History Prehistory
Total questions: 33
Worksheet time: 17mins
"Before Christ;" (BC) is the same as _____________ the Common Era, or abbreviated how?
Before: BCE
After: ACE
During: DCE
Location of the former "__________ bridge" used by Asian hunters to migrate to North America.
Ice: Bering Strait
Ice: Boats
Land: Bering Strait
Land: Boats
Theory that proposes the universe began in an event similar to an ________________ (boom).
Evolution: Big Bang
Explosion: Big Bang
Evolution: Big Crunch
Explosion: Big Crunch
"In the year of our Lord" or "Anno Domini" in _____________ (language) can also be called the Common Era, abbreviated how?
Greek: AD/CE
Latin: BC/CE
Greek: BC/CE
Latin: AD/CE
EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, NORTH AND SOUTH _____________ are all what?
Africa: Continents
America: Continents
Africa: Countries
America: Countries
The process by which wind and water shape the surface of the Earth.
Destruction
Hurricanes
Erosion
Earthquakes
Europe and Asia.
Two separate counties
Continents separated by a large ocean
Eurasia
Remains of living organisms that have been left behind for scientists to study.
Fossils
Remnants
Artifacts
Water that can be used for farming and drinking.
Saline
Salty
Fresh
Surface
Latin for "upright human;" this extinct member of the hominid family lived about two and a half million years ago.
Homo Erectus
Neanderthal
Homo Habilis
Australopithecus
Periods when water was locked in ice sheets.
Ice Year
Ice Age
Cold Year
Cold Age
Name given to the first Australopithecus remains found in the Great Rift Valley. She was actually named for a Beatles song that was playing at the time of discovery!
Yellow Submarine
Lucy
Lacy
Suzzane
The earliest Homo sapiens who developed about 150,000 years ago (it was actually longer ago, but that is what our source said).
Homo Erectus
Neanderthals
Homo Habilis
Australopithecus
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Artic.
Continents
Lakes
Seas
Oceans
The name of the gorge in the Great Rift Valley where many early human discoveries have been made.
Grand Canyon
Neander Valley
Olduvai Gorge
Scientists who study the remains of plants and animals.
Architects
Paleontologists
Archaeologists
Anthropologists
Scientists believe that all the continents may have, at one time, been part of this single landmass.
Pangea
Superamerica
Eurasia
Times when people did not yet read or write.
Prehistoric
Paleolithic
Neolithic
A source that comes from someone who was around at the time of an event.
Primary Source
Secondary Source
A source that is created by someone who not involved in an actual event (example: history textbook).
Primary Source
Secondary Source
Narrow body of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
Isthmus
Peninsula
Strait
Bay
A term used to describe inventions and tools that make life easier.
Neolithic
Paleolithic
Technology
Artifacts
Mountains that separate Europe and Asia
Appalachian
Atlas
Rocky
Ural
The Paleolithic Age is also called the __________ and people survived by ___________.
Early/Old Stone Age: Farming
Early/Old Stone Age: Hunting and Gathering
Late/New Stone Age: Farming
Late/New Stone Age: Hunting and Gathering
The Neolithic Age is also called the __________ and people survived by ___________.
Early/Old Stone Age: Farming
Early/Old Stone Age: Hunting and Gathering
Late/New Stone Age: Farming
Late/New Stone Age: Hunting and Gathering
Two traits scientists look for before calling extinct hominids human:
Bipedal (walks on two feet)
Carnivorous
Large Brain
Hairless
Where do earthquakes and volcanoes tend to occur?
Along high mountain ridges.
In the open ocean.
Where Earth’s plates come together.
Usually near a Denny’s or a Walmart
Most scientists believe that the universe is how old? How old is Earth?
~15 billion years: ~5 billion years
~5 billion years: ~10,000 years
~15 billion years: ~20 billion years
~15 trillion years: ~5 billion years
“Waves of History” include all of the following except:
migration
agriculture
civilization
prehistoric
industry
What percentage of the Earth is covered in water? What percentage of that water is freshwater?
>80%: >2%
>90%: >5%
> 55%: <.5%
>66%: <1%
Culturally speaking, what constitutes the “West” and “East” (in terms of geography)?
Europe and S. America: Asia
Europe and N. America: Russia
Europe and N. America: Asia
Europe and S. America: Russia
What Galaxy are you in?
Andromeda
Milky Way
Did you really just ask that? Don't pick me.
All of the following are advantages of being bipedal except (I realized this was a question from a video that we usually watched, but I left it anyway! Use logic and see if you can figure it out.):
It is more efficient than walking on all fours.
You can see farther and therefore it is safer.
It is better for climbing trees.
It leaves your hands free to use tools/weapons.
