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Early Man SHS Ployd Quiz

Total questions: 33

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does the term "Paleo" mean?

a)

Old

b)

New

c)

Intermediate

d)

Of Iron

2.

What does the term "Neo" mean?

a)

Old

b)

New

c)

Between

d)

Of Stone

3.

What does the term "Lithic" mean?

a)

New

b)

Old

c)

Stone

d)

Of Iron

4.

What does the term "Neolithic" mean?

a)

Old Stone Age

b)

Current Stone Age

c)

Future Stone Age

d)

New Stone Age

5.

What does the term "Paleolithic" mean?

a)

Land Between the Rivers

b)

New Stone Age

c)

Old Stone Age

d)

Land of Iron

6.

What does the term "Mono" mean?

a)

One

b)

Many

c)

All

d)

Any

7.

What does the term "Poly" mean?

a)

Old

b)

Many

c)

New

d)

One

8.

What does the term "Theos" mean???

a)

One

b)

New

c)

God

d)

Many

9.

What does the term "Cracy" indicate?

a)

Of Nature

b)

Of Government

c)

Of the economy

d)

Of the Gods

10.

What does the term "Meso" mean?

a)

Between/Middle

b)

Below/Under

c)

Above/On Top Of

d)

Throughout

11.

What does the term "potami" mean?

a)

Between

b)

Under

c)

River

d)

Valley

12.

What does the term "Mesopotamia" mean?

a)

Land Between the Rivers

b)

Land Between the Mountains

c)

Land Between the Valleys

d)

Land Between the Shadows

13.

What does the term "Archaeologist" mean?

a)

One who discovers and studies fossils and artifacts.

b)

One who focuses on the rituals of foreign cultures.

c)

One who deciphers foreign languages.

d)

One who writes in their culture's language.

14.

What does the term "Theos" mean?

a)

Of Man

b)

Of Earth

c)

Created by human hands.

d)

God or of God.

15.

What does the term "Theocracy" mean?

a)

A Government of the People

b)

A Government of Religious Leaders and Laws

c)

A Government of Aristocrats who decide what is in the people's best interest.

d)

A tribunal of Warlords.

16.

How do Archaeologists determine the age of fossils or artifacts?

a)

Nitrogen Deposits

b)

Solar Residue

c)

Carbon Dating

d)

Polytheistic Documentation

17.

What is a land mass surrounded on three sides by water?

a)

Island

b)

Archipelago

c)

Peninsula

d)

Peidmont

18.

What is a land mass which is completely surrounded by water?

a)

Archipelago

b)

Peninsula

c)

Cul De Sac

d)

Island

19.

What continent did Early Man originate on?

a)

Asia

b)

Africa

c)

South America

d)

Austrailia

20.

What was the name of the Land Bridge which Early Man used to cross from Asia into North America?

a)

Beringia

b)

Pangea

c)

Polygea

21.

How did Early Man communicate, write, and tell others what was in their vacinity?

a)

Stone Art

b)

Stone Relics

c)

Cave Mosaics

d)

Cave Art

22.

When did Early Man begin using domesticated animals?

a)

Paleolithic Era

b)

The Mesolithic Era

c)

The Neolithic Era

d)

The Jurassic Era

23.

What revolution took place during the Stone Age which signaled the beginning of the Neolithic Era?

a)

Scientific Revolution

b)

Bronze Guilded Revolution

c)

Agricultural Revolution

d)

The Industrial Revolution

24.

What was the time before written history referred to as?

a)

Neohistorical

b)

Posthistorical

c)

Mezohistorical

d)

Prehistorical

25.

Which was a neolithic stone formation created by man in what is now modern day England?

a)

Stonehenge

b)

Catalhuyuk

c)

Aleppo

d)

Jericho

26.

What is a neolithic settlement that is in modern day Syria?

a)

Catalhuyuk

b)

Stonehenge

c)

Aleppo

d)

Jericho

27.

What Neolithic settlement is in Anatolia (Modern Turkey)?

a)

Catalhuyuk

b)

Aleppo

c)

Jericho

d)

Stonehenge

28.

What Neolithic Settlement is in the Jordan River Valley/Canaan Valley?

a)

Catalhuyuk

b)

Aleppo

c)

Jericho

d)

Jerusalem

29.

Where did Homo sapien originate?

a)

Asia

b)

Africa

c)

North America

d)

Beringea

30.

What invention helped revolutionize agriculture?

a)

The Wheel

b)

The Cycle

c)

The Plow

d)

The Waterwheel

31.

What do you call the intentional movement of water from a large source to an agricultural field through ditches and conduits in order that the water would reach the crops?

a)

Aqueducts

b)

Irrigation

c)

Hydrofarming

d)

Agrohydration

32.

What does someone call the different layers of earth which might cover a fossil?

a)

Layer

b)

Plateau

c)

Strata

d)

Level

33.

If there are seven strata visible to the archaeologist; and, a brontosaurus skull is located above a Velociraptor femur... then which one is the older fossil?

a)

Velociraptor Femur

b)

Brontosaurus Skull

c)

They Are both of the same era

d)

There is no way to be certain