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Toward Civilization Review

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The objects identified in the picture would most likely come from which period of time?

a)

Neolithic Period

b)

Paleolithic Period

c)

Iron Age

d)

Bronze Age

2.

During the Neolithic Era, which change first resulted in the creation of settled communities?

a)

Invention of written language

b)

Development of agriculture

c)

Specialization of labor

d)

Use of pottery

3.

Neolithic people...

a)

Created fire

b)

Lived in small clans

c)

Used domesticated animals

d)

Were nomadic

4.

A new discovery from a New Stone Age village would most likely be analyzed by...

a)

A physicist

b)

An archaeologist

c)

A geographer

d)

A geologist

5.

When studying prehistoric people, cave drawings, like the one above, allow archaeologists to...

a)

Speculate about daily lives

b)

Understand spoken languages

c)

Interpret written records

d)

Study farming techniques

6.

NEW advances during the Neolithic Era included:

a)

Weaving cloth and making pottery

b)

Using charcoal for cave paintings

c)

Using fire for warmth and protection

d)

Using bone from animals to make tools

7.

What was the Neolithic Era?

a)

A change from hunting and gathering to settled farming

b)

A war that resulted in the migration of people to North America

c)

A religious movement in which people began to practice monotheism

d)

A period of time when the Earth's surface was mostly covered in ice

8.
The taming of animals for personal use.
a)
domestication
b)
domination
c)
animalization 
d)
petting zoo
9.

What is the time period before written language was created?

a)

History

b)

Climate

c)

Pre-History

d)

Environment

10.

The characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people (or their "way of life") is:

a)

Religion

b)

Culture

c)

Government

d)

Beliefs

11.

When scientists study pre-historic people, what do they look at?

a)

Diaries

b)

Maps

c)

Artifacts

d)

Stone Tablets

12.
What did the hunters and gatherers have to develop before they could effectively work together? 
a)
tools 
b)
language 
c)
fire
d)
domestication of animals
13.
Scientists divide the Stone Ages into periods based on which of the following?
a)
the types of animals that lived 
b)
the development of agriculture 
c)
the types of tools used by people 
d)
the type of clothes worn by people 
14.
____________________ is the study of the ancient and recent human past through material remains. 
a)
Archaeology
b)
Anthropologist
c)
History
d)
Aeropostaleogy
15.

If your profession is to study the development and culture of early hominids, then you are mostly likely...

a)

a historian

b)

a geographer

c)

an archaeologist

d)

an anthropologist

16.

Which new capability enabled hominids to survive in the colder climate of Europe?

a)

building fire and shelters

b)

drawing art on cave walls

c)

gathering food from plants

d)

making tools out of bones

17.

The study of human societies and cultures and their development.

a)

Humanism

b)

Optimism

c)

Anthropology

d)

Anatomy

18.

A human made object that has historical or cultural value?

a)

Art form

b)

Artifact

c)

Pottery

d)

History instrument

19.
Human and Environment Interactions are ...
a)
The way people and the environment affect each other.
b)
Areas of the world that have common physical, human or cultural characteristics.
c)
The way people, goods and ideas travel from place to place.
20.

Geography is...

a)

The study of Earth and how we, the people who live there, interact with it.

b)

The study of Earth and its atmosphere.

c)

The study of rocks, minerals, and all physical attributes of Earth

21.

Latitude

a)

is the study of people, their environments, and the resources available to them

b)

tells where a place is on the surface of the earth

c)

measures distance north or south of the Equator

d)

measures distance east or west of the Prime Meridian

e)

location, place, human-environment interaction, movement and region

22.

Longitude

a)

is the study of people, their environments, and the resources available to them

b)

tells where a place is on the surface of the earth

c)

measures distance north or south of the Equator

d)

measures distance east or west of the Prime Meridian

e)

location, place, human-environment interaction, movement and region

23.

Five themes of Geography

a)

is the study of people, their environments, and the resources available to them

b)

tells where a place is on the surface of the earth

c)

measures distance north or south of the Equator

d)

measures distance east or west of the Prime Meridian

e)

location, place, human-environment interaction, movement and region

24.

Geography

a)

is the study of people, their environments, and the resources available to them

b)

tells where a place is on the surface of the earth

c)

measures distance north or south of the Equator

d)

measures distance east or west of the Prime Meridian

e)

location, place, human-environment interaction, movement and region

25.

Location

a)

is the study of people, their environments, and the resources available to them

b)

tells where a place is on the surface of the earth

c)

measures distance north or south of the Equator

d)

measures distance east or west of the Prime Meridian

e)

location, place, human-environment interaction, movement and region

26.

technology

a)

skills and tools people use to meet their basic needs.

b)

study how people lived in the past.

c)

sheets of ice

d)

animism

e)

a complex, highly organized social order.