The Fertile Crescent stretches from...

the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea

a person who constantly travels for food

Which are countries located in East Africa?

Somalia, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya

How did homo sapiens reach South America?

They crossed Beringia from Siberia

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

The Paleolithic Age began and ended when?

began 2.5 million years ending 8,000

What is creating the divergent tectonic activity in Africa?

Asian and African plates are pulling apart

Beringia connected which two continents?

Asia and Europe, Asia and North America

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

What was the Agricultural Revolution?

When man planted and predicted crops

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The Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages

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

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