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WorksheetsEarly Man
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
What did the discovery of fire allow early man to do?
cook food, heat homes, protect families, hunt animals
create primitive machines requiring fire power
build more permanent structures
develop a complex form of communication
How did hunter-gatherers adapt to their environment?
They built permanent settlements
They traded with other groups of hunter-gatherers
They farmed the land
They developed stone tools and learned to use fire.
Where do historians think early man originated?
North America
East Africa
Asia
Antarctica
What does surplus mean?
Having just enough
Lacking supplies
Having enough for your family, but no one else
Having more than is needed.
Which description below is of a permanent settlement?
Native Americans living in teepees and moving as herds of animals move.
Early man living in caves.
Communities of farming villages
Hunters and gatherers migrating with their food supply
Which best describes the Neolithic Revolution?
the movement from hunting and gathering to permanent agricultural settlements
the movement from permanent settlements to hunting and gathering
the movement of hunters and gatherers to follow their food supply
the movement of cavemen from one cave to another
The era also known as the "Old Stone Age".
Mesozoic Era
Mesolithic Era
Neolithic Era
Paleolithic Era
What invention helped Neolithic farmers become more productive (means to do more)...
women in the fields
children working the fields
plow
tractor
Why were early humans nomadic (moved from place to place)?
followed their food
they loved to see new parts of the world
wild animals were chasing them
protect from those who would seek to do harm to them
