WorksheetsEarly Humans & Prehistory
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 16mins
Writing was not invented until about 5,000 years ago around 3000 BCE.
True
False
Match the following vocabulary terms to their definition.
moving from one location to another
migration
a large mass of ice covering land
glacier
early relatives to modern-day humans
hominids
Today's humans are known as...
homo sapiens
homo erectus
homo habilis
neanderthals
The term that is used for early humans that hunted animals and gathered plants for food is...
australopithecus
hominids
neanderthals
hunter-gatherers
Scientists and historians believe that all early humans migrated originally from what continent?
Europe
Antarctica
North America
Africa
It is believed that early humans migrated to all continents EXCEPT...
South America
Australia
Asia
Antarctica
What was the reason for early human migration?
Their homes were flooded.
Humans follwed animals to new locations for food.
The soil at their homes was no good.
Match the following vocabulary words with their definition.
planting food & breeding animals for human use
domestication
the large-scale shift from hunting/gathering to farming, allowing humans to produce large quantities of food
agricultural revolution
a time period with freezing temperatures around the world
Ice Age
a time where humans invented and used stone tools
Stone Age
Why was the agricultural revolution important? Check all that apply.
people learned to produce food to feed a lot of people in ONE AREA, so they no longer had to migrate
it allowed populations to increase
improved clothing quality for changing climate
it allowed for people to move across great distances
infectous diseases increased with human contact with animals and large populations living close together.
The end of the ice age resulted in colder climate and extinction of small animals that people hunted.
True
False
