Human origins unit review quiz

Question 1

What is used to help map out where humans and animals originated from?

Accepted Answer

genetic testing

Question 2

These people who are identical to modern humans appeared around 40,000 years ago. They had new tools, planned hunts, etc

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Cro-Magnons

Question 3

thumb that enables grasping objects and using tools

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opposable thumb

Question 4

True or false: hunter gatherers were people who hunted animals and gathered wild plants for food.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

What was a long period of human development before the development of agriculture?

Accepted Answer

the Paleolithic Age

Question 6

humans and other creatures that walk upright

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Hominids

Question 7

A scientist who studies fossils

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Paleontologist

Question 8

A person who looks for bones, tools, and artifacts from people who lived long ago to find out how people lived then

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Archeologist

Question 9

(man of skill) first to make stone tools

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Homo habilis

Question 10

Why were grains (wheat, barley, oat, rice) the most popular crop grown in ancient civilizations?

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can last up to a year if kept in a dry place

Question 11

Any hominid that walked upright.

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Australopithecines

Question 12

The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering

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Agricultural Revolution

Question 13

These huge structures were built by hunter gatherers and some of the earliest peoples to worship gods.

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megaliths

Question 14

the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted...

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culture

Question 15

True or false: neanderthals are not related to homo sapiens (They are different species.).

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

An object made by human beings; often refers to a primitive tool or other relic from an earlier period

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artifact

Question 17

What was the period of the Stone Age connected with the ancient Agricultural Revolution called? (after Paleolithic age)

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the Neolithic Period

Question 18

modern humans

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Homo sapiens

Question 19

"Upright man" these hominids became skillful hunters and invented more sophisticated tools for digging, scraping, etc.

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Homo erectus

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