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WorksheetsThe Paleolithic Age - Hunters & Gatherers
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 18mins
What is another name for the Paleolithic Age?
The New Stone Age
The Old Stone Age
The Bronze Age
The Iron Age
The Paleolithic Age began about _______ years ago and lasted until around 8000 B.C.
2.5 million
250,000
10,000
500,000
What does the word 'paleolithic' mean in Greek?
Old stone
Ancient fire
New earth
Sacred water
Who were nomads during the Paleolithic Age?
People who regularly move from place to place to survive.
People who built permanent houses and farmed the land.
People who ruled large empires and cities.
People who invented writing and mathematics.
How did Paleolithic people survive?
By hunting and gathering food, including hunting animals and gathering wild nuts, berries, fruits, wild grains, and green plants.
By practicing advanced agriculture and domesticating animals for farming.
By building large cities and trading manufactured goods.
Name two animals that Paleolithic people hunted.
Buffalo and reindeer
Lions and elephants
Camels and horses
Dogs and cats
According to the passage, who hunted large animals in Paleolithic groups?
Men
Women
Children
Both men and women
What did Paleolithic men have to learn in order to hunt animals?
How to build houses
How animals behaved and how to hunt them
How to plant crops
How to make clothes
Women in Paleolithic groups hunted large animals far from camp.
True
False
Paleolithic people developed _______ and weapons to help them hunt.
tools
books
cars
computers
What is the definition of 'methods' as used in the passage?
The ways Paleolithic people used to hunt and gather their food.
The tools Paleolithic people invented for cooking.
The places where Paleolithic people lived.
The animals Paleolithic people domesticated.
What is 'technology' according to the passage?
Tools and methods to perform tasks, first used by Paleolithic people.
A type of ancient art form practiced by early humans.
A religious belief system developed in the Stone Age.
A natural resource found in the environment.
What material did Paleolithic people use to make sharp-edged cutting tools?
Flint
Wood
Copper
Bone
Flint technology was a major breakthrough for early peoples.
True
False
What did early humans use scraping tools for?
To clean animal hides, which they used for clothing and shelter.
To carve wooden statues for religious ceremonies.
To build stone houses for permanent settlements.
To write messages on cave walls.
By the end of the Paleolithic Age, people were making smaller and sharper tools.
True
False
What did early humans use to make needles for sewing hides together for clothing?
Animal bones
Wood
Stone
Metal
How did climate affect how Paleolithic people lived?
It did not affect them
It influenced their clothing and shelter
It made them stop hunting
What materials did Paleolithic people use to construct tents and huts?
Animal skins, brush, and wood
Bricks and cement
Metal sheets and glass
What did people living in colder climates use to build frames for shelters?
Wood from trees
Bones from dead woolly mammoths
Stones
Metal poles
People living in warmer climates needed little clothing or shelter.
True
False
What did fire provide for Paleolithic people?
Fire provided warmth, light, and protection from wild animals.
Fire provided tools for writing and reading.
Fire provided means for building houses and roads.
How did early humans first produce fire, according to archaeologists?
By rubbing two pieces of wood together to create friction and heat until the wood caught fire.
By using matches found in nature.
By striking metal against metal to create sparks.
What is one way Paleolithic people discovered to start a fire besides rubbing wood together?
By striking iron pyrite against another rock to produce sparks.
By using magnifying glasses to focus sunlight.
By using matches made from tree bark.
Other advancements took place during the Paleolithic Age. One important advancement was the development of spoken language. Up until this time, early people _______ through sounds and physical gestures. Then, they began to develop language.
communicated
painted
traveled
Ancient peoples started to express themselves in words for the same reasons we do. Language makes it easier for us to work together and to pass on knowledge.
The spoken language of early people was _______ growing and changing.
constantly
rarely
slowly
Who discovered one of the most famous animal-art galleries in the world in 1879?
Maria de Sautuola
August Gansser
Maria's grandfather
In what country did Maria de Sautuola discover the cave with animal paintings?
France
Spain
Italy
About how many years before Maria's visit did Paleolithic artists paint mysterious signs in the cave?
1,000 years
5,000 years
10,000 years
What materials did early artists use to make paints for Paleolithic cave paintings?
Early artists crushed yellow, black, and red rocks and combined them with animal fat to make their paints.
Early artists used only water and sand to create their paints.
Early artists used clay and grass to make their paints.
What did early artists use to apply paints to the rock walls?
They used twigs and their fingertips to apply these paints to the rock walls.
They used metal brushes and rollers to apply these paints to the rock walls.
They used feathers and leaves to apply these paints to the rock walls.
Why do some historians believe early people made cave paintings?
Some historians believe that the paintings may have been created to record the group's history or to bring hunters good luck.
They were used as a form of currency for trading with other tribes.
The paintings were created to decorate the caves for aesthetic purposes only.
How did people adapt to survive during the ice ages?
People used tools and fire as important technological developments to help them survive during the ice ages.
People built skyscrapers to stay above the snow.
People relied solely on eating tropical fruits.
According to the passage, what allowed people to travel from Asia into North America during the Ice Ages?
Boats
Land bridge
Airplanes
Tunnels
The Ice Ages affected humans in several ways. Which of the following lists two ways humans adapted to survive during the Ice Ages?
They made clothing from animal skins and built shelters from bones and hides.
They developed agriculture and started using metal tools.
They invented the wheel and began writing.
The last Ice Age ended between about 9000 and 8000 B.C.
True
False
