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Paleolithic and Neolithic Vocab

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

One of the harshest deserts on earth

a)

Sahara

b)

Bergenia

c)

Africa

d)

California

2.

A (a)   is a long period of dry, hot weather

3.

An artifact or piece of writing that was created by someone who witnessed or lived through a historical event.

a)

Primary Source

b)

Secondary source

c)

Oral History

d)

Culture

4.

A group's way of life, including types of food, clothing, language, shelter, behavior, and ideas.

a)

Oral history

b)

Culture

c)

Technology

d)

A tribe

5.

An artifact or writing created after an event by someone who didn't see it or live during the time it occurred.

a)

Primary source

b)

a book

c)

secondary source

6.

The raising of plants and animals to make them useful to humans

a)

Agriculture

b)

farming

c)

Domestication

d)

Fertile

7.

A human who hunts animals and gathers wild plants to eat

a)

Nomadic

b)

hunter-gatherer

c)

megafauna

8.

large animals such as the woolly mammoth, giant ground sloth, and saber-toothed cat

a)

Megafauna

b)

The characters in the ice age movie

c)

Pets

d)

nomads

9.

A region that stretches from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean sea

a)

Fertile Cresent

b)

Bergenia

c)

Sahara

d)

agriculture

10.

A person who moves regularly from one place to another is a (a)   .

11.

A land bridge that connected Siberia and North America

a)

Bergenia

b)

Landbridge

c)

Ice age

d)

Sahara

12.

An unwritten account of events that is often passed down as stories or songs.

a)

Oral history

b)

Primary source

c)

Secondary source

d)

secondary history

13.

The movement from one place to another

a)

migration

b)

immigrant

c)

nomads

14.

A fertile place with water in a desert

a)

Oasis

b)

Fertile Cresent

c)

Fertile

d)

Agriculture

15.

The practice of growing plants and rearing animals for food

a)

Agriculture

b)

domestication

c)

hunting and gathering

16.

Encouraging the growth of crops and plants

a)

Fertile

b)

fertile crescent

c)

agriculture

d)

domestication

17.

A strip of land connecting two land masses

a)

Landbridge

b)

Bergenia

c)

migration

d)

megafuana

18.

The application of knowledge, tools, and inventions that meet people's needs.

a)

Technology

b)

agriculture

c)

culture

d)

artifacts

19.

An object made by humans from a past culture

a)

artifacts

b)

fossils

c)

technology

d)

agriculture

20.

a scientist who studies the cultural development of humans is an (a)  

21.

The preserved remains of ancient animals and plants

a)

artifacts

b)

fossils

c)

dinosaurs

d)

technology

22.

a scientist who studies past human life by analyzing fossils and artifacts

a)

Archaeologist

b)

anthropologist

c)

architect

d)

anaesthesiologist

23.

Which of the following is right about the paleolithic age?

a)

began around 2.5 million B.C. and ended around 8000 B.C.

b)

when farming began

c)

also called the old stone age

d)

when the Flinstones ruled the world

24.

The Neolithic age began when?

a)

8,000 B.C.

b)

2.5 MILLION B.C.

c)

5,000 B.C.

d)

8,000 A.D.