What was the Agricultural Revolution?

When man planted and predicted crops

Beringia connected which two continents?

Asia and Europe, Asia and North America

The Paleolithic Age began and ended when?

began 2.5 million years ending 8,000

How did Paleolithic people get food?

They hunted and gathered wild plants

What theory suggests why megafauna became extinct?

food and water became scarce due to drought

How did homo sapiens reach South America?

They crossed Beringia from Siberia

What is creating the divergent tectonic activity in Africa?

Asian and African plates are pulling apart

Which are countries located in East Africa?

Somalia, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya

Smelting is the process of

heating rocks to remove the enclosed metal

What marks the beginning of the Paleolithic Age?

Homo Sapiens began to make stone tools

The Fertile Crescent stretches from...

the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea

a person who constantly travels for food

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The Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages

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1
This means "wise man"
Homo sapiens
Paleolithic
Ano Domini
Neolithic
2
What does a geologist do?
analyze land
analyze rocks
analyze people
analyze artifacts
3
Which is an artifact?
spear point made of stone
petrified tree branch
footprint of a chimpanzee
Fossilized skull of a hominid
4
Why did some Paleolithic people in East Africa migrate to others areas?
sea levels were rising
rival groups drove them out
the climate became unstable
Farmland became scarce
5
Prehistory refers to the time...
before villages
before Ms. Brownlee
before speech
before written records
6
What was the last continent to be populated?
South America
Antarctica
North America
Australia
7
What area were the earliest human-like bones found?
East Africa
North Africa
Central Africa
South Africa
8
What was the Agricultural Revolution?
When man planted and predicted crops
when machines were made
when soil became fertile
The American Revolution
9
Domestication
taming plants & animals
the beginning of writing
taming ocean tides
the beginning of farming
10
Which is an example of Paleolithic technology?
burying their dead with certain rituals
hunting for wild berries and nuts
living in small family groups with many relatives
using fire to cook
11
Beringia connected which two continents?
Asia and Europe
Asia and North America
North America and South America
Europe and Asia
12
The Paleolithic Age began and ended when?
200,000 - 100,000
250 million and 5 million
began 2.5 million years ending 8,000
15,000-10,000
13
Approximately when did homo sapiens begin to cross Bering?
100,000 - 75,000
20,000 - 15,000
3,000 - 5,000 years ago
1 million years ago
14
What is the correct spelling of the 17,000 year old cave art found in France?
Lascow
Loxcau
Laxcaux
Lascaux
15
What change marks the beginning of the Neolithic Age?
metal tools
drinking from cups
the birth of agriculture
making of stone tools
16
When did the Agricultural Revolution begin?
2 million years ago
approximately 100,000 years ago
approximately 2000 years ago
approximately 9,000 years ago
17
What technological process developed using rocks during the Neolithic Age?
fishing
fertilizer
smelting
hunting
18
How did Paleolithic people get food?
They hunted and gathered wild plants
they shot it
they bought it
they waited for it to come
19
Ano Domini means
Seize the Day
In the year of our Lord
In the year of America
In the year of Rome
20
What theory suggests why megafauna became extinct?
The Ice Age started to end
Humans stopped hunting them
The climate suddenly became colder
food and water became scarce due to drought
21
Music, language, clothing, and other aspects of human life...
technology
artifacts
culture
government
22
How did homo sapiens reach South America?
The swam
they migrated from Central America
They crossed Beringia from Siberia
the took boats
23
What is creating the divergent tectonic activity in Africa?
Asian and African plates are pulling apart
African and European plates pulling apart
Asian and African Plates converging
South America and Africa pulling apart
24
Which are countries located in East Africa?
Nigeria, United Arab Emirates, Phillipines
Chad, Nigeria, United Arab Emirates
Somalia, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya
Phillipines, Kenya, Egypt
25
Smelting is the process of
collecting water
heating rocks to remove the enclosed metal
using metal for tools
sculpting rocks
26
________ is the fingerprint of a Homo Sapiens becoming modern
music
art
government
language
27
What marks the beginning of the Paleolithic Age?
Humans began to make metal tools
Humans started to farm
Humans began to settle in villages
Homo Sapiens began to make stone tools
28
The Fertile Crescent stretches from...
The Mediterranean Sea to the Sinai Peninsula
the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea
The Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea
Persian Gulf to the Red Sea
29
What is a nomad?
a bird who migrates constantly
a bird
a person settled down
a person who constantly travels for food
30
Where is the Great Rift Valley located?
Central Africa
The Eastern side of Africa
North Africa
South America

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