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Early Man

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What did the discovery of fire allow early man to do?

a)

cook food, heat homes, protect families, hunt animals

b)

create primitive machines requiring fire power

c)

build more permanent structures

d)

develop a complex form of communication

2.

How did hunter-gatherers adapt to their environment?

a)

They built permanent settlements

b)

They traded with other groups of hunter-gatherers

c)

They farmed the land

d)

They developed stone tools and learned to use fire.

3.

Where do historians think early man originated?

a)

North America

b)

East Africa

c)

Asia

d)

Antarctica

4.

What does surplus mean?

a)

Having just enough

b)

Lacking supplies

c)

Having enough for your family, but no one else

d)

Having more than is needed.

5.

Which description below is of a permanent settlement?

a)

Native Americans living in teepees and moving as herds of animals move.

b)

Early man living in caves.

c)

Communities of farming villages

d)

Hunters and gatherers migrating with their food supply

6.

Which best describes the Neolithic Revolution?

a)

the movement from hunting and gathering to permanent agricultural settlements

b)

the movement from permanent settlements to hunting and gathering

c)

the movement of hunters and gatherers to follow their food supply

d)

the movement of cavemen from one cave to another

7.
What is another word for farming?
a)
Domestication
b)
Irrigation
c)
Agriculture
d)
Farming
8.
How did domestication of plants and animals affect early man?
a)
They could have pets
b)
They could visit distant places
c)
They could hunt and gather
d)
They could stay in one place for a long time
9.
Nomads had no.....
a)
food
b)
family 
c)
settled home
10.
The era also known as the "New Stone Age".
a)
Mesolithic Era
b)
Neolithic Era
c)
Paleolithic Era
d)
Mesozoic Era
11.

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

a)

Mesozoic Era

b)

Mesolithic Era

c)

Neolithic Era

d)

Paleolithic Era

12.

What invention helped Neolithic farmers become more productive (means to do more)...

a)

women in the fields

b)

children working the fields

c)

plow

d)

tractor

13.

Why were early humans nomadic (moved from place to place)?

a)

followed their food

b)

they loved to see new parts of the world

c)

wild animals were chasing them

d)

protect from those who would seek to do harm to them