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Early People Vocabulary

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is agriculture?

a)

Hunting

b)

Gathering

c)

Farming

2.

The earliest known period of human culture, marked by the creation and use of stone tools

a)

Neolithic Age

b)

Ice Age

c)

Paleolithic Age

3.

People who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive

a)

Ice Age Hunters

b)

Hunter-Gatherers

c)

Stone Age Hunters

4.

Period of time where agriculture started allowing for people to begin settlements

a)

Paleolithic Age

b)

Neolithic Age

c)

Ice Age

5.

Having extra food

a)

Technology

b)

Trade

c)

Surplus

6.

The use of skills and tools to meet practical needs.

a)

technology

b)

trade

c)

surplus

7.

The exchange of goods

a)

Trade

b)

Technology

c)

Surplus

8.

The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.

a)

Ice Age

b)

Agricultural Revolution

c)

Neolithic

d)

Paleolithic

9.

A person who learns about the human past by studying fossils and artifacts.

a)

Paleolithic

b)

Neolithic

c)

Archaeologist

d)

Ice Age

10.

A person who moves from place to place in search of food.

a)

Pull Factors

b)

Nomad

c)

Domestication

d)

Secondary Source

11.

Movement of people from one place to another.

a)

Neolithic

b)

Domestication

c)

Civilization

d)

Migration

12.

The taming of animals for human use, such as work or as food.

a)

Civilization

b)

Domestication

c)

Pull Factors

d)

Push Factors

13.

An object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.

a)

Push Factors

b)

Artifact

c)

Pull Factors

d)

Civilization

14.
Nomadic means to
a)
Sleep in tents
b)
Move around frequently
c)
Stay in one place
15.

The Stone Age got its name because

a)

Stone Houses

b)

Used pretty rocks for money

c)

Rocky Fields

d)

Stone Tools

16.

A system to bring water to crops

a)

migration

b)

agricultural revolution

c)

irrigation

d)

nomad

17.

Agrarian means...

a)

Hunting and gthering

b)

Devoted to agriculture

c)

Living near water

18.

Climate is ....

a)

The temperature

b)

The weather outside on a given day

c)

The weather conditions most prevailing in a place, averaged over several years

19.

A forager does what?

a)

Hunts for food

b)

Hunts for water

c)

Hunts for supplies

d)

All of the above

20.

A hierarchy is ...

a)

A group of people graded according to rank or level of authority

b)

A group of people who are all equal