WorksheetsStone Age
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
1) Historians call the time before there was writing, _____________.
a)
Post-history
b)
Pre-history
c)
1986
2.
2) An anthropologist is someone who studies _______________.
a)
frogs
b)
the weather
c)
cultures
3.
3) Many scientists think the first humans appeared in Africa about ________________ years ago.
a)
200,000
b)
50,000
c)
1,000,000,000
4.
4) The first humans lived during a long period of time called the ____________________________.
a)
Cretaceous Period
b)
Stone Age
c)
Heroic Age
5.
5) To archeologists a _____________ is a handheld object that has been modified to help a person accomplish a task.
a)
tool
b)
ball
c)
rock
6.
6) The FIRST part of the Stone Age is called the __________.
a)
Mesolithic Era
b)
Neolithic Era
c)
Paleolithic Era
7.
7) Because a _________ could be thrown, hunters no longer stay close to the animals they were hunting.
a)
chopper
b)
bone
c)
spear
8.
8) A ___________ is a community of people who share a common culture.
a)
continent
b)
troop
c)
society
9.
9) The early humans of the Stone Age were _____________________-people who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, and fruits to survive.
a)
Farmers
b)
Hunter-gatherers
c)
Artists
10.
10) _________________ made it easier for people to resolve issues like how to distribute food.
a)
Fighting
b)
Language
c)
Gathering seeds
11.
11) About how long ago did "the Iceman" live?
a)
About 5,200 years ago
b)
About 1,000,000 years ago
c)
About 100 years ago
12.
12) Agriculture is related most closely to which word?
a)
Building
b)
Hunting
c)
Farming
13.
13) By ____________BCE humans lived on all continents except Antarctica.
a)
9,000
b)
30,000
c)
2,500
14.
14) A_______________ was a pit in the ground with a roof of branches and leaves. (It was a house built in the ground and used for shelter.)
a)
Wigwam
b)
Pit house
c)
Teepee
15.
15) The MIDDLE stone age was called the_______________.
a)
Neolithic Era
b)
Paleolithic Era
c)
Mesolithic Era
16.
16) The New Stone Age was called the ____________.
a)
Neolithic Era
b)
Paleolithic Era
c)
Mesolithic Era
17.
17) People learned that they could plant seeds themselves to grow their own_____________.
a)
Cattle
b)
Fish
c)
Crops
18.
18) The process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans is called______________.
a)
Plowing
b)
Crops
c)
Domestication
19.
19) ____________ are huge stones used as monuments or the sites for religious gatherings.
a)
Agriculture
b)
Megaliths
c)
Domestication
20.
20) Early people probably believed in gods and goddesses associated with_______________.
a)
All the above
b)
Air
c)
Water
d)
Fire
e)
Earth
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