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"Beginning of Humans" Unit Review
"Beginning of Humans" Unit Review
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Review for Old Stone Age/Paleolithic Era, New Stone Age/Neolithic Era, & Ice Age.
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First era or the Old Stone Age that lasted from earliest humans to about 10,000 years ago.
Jurassic Era
Ice Age
Paleolithic Era
Neolithic Era
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The shift from food-gathering to food-producing occurred in which era?
Ice Age
Old Stone Age
Neolithic Era
Paleolithic Era
3
How did people adapt to their environment?
by agriculture
by developing fire
by hunting and gathering food
all of the answers
4
What inventions/ideas/discoveries during this period in history still impact your life today?
communicating through art
all of the choices
people worked in groups
development of agriculture
5
Which statement correctly describes early hunter-gatherer societies?
They relied on farming for their food.
They usually lived together in large cities.
They moved based on animals they hunted.
They traveled with large surpluses of food.
6
time before there was a written record of history
ancestor
Ice Age
prehistory
paleolithic era
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What was true about New Stone Age people that was different from Old Stone Age people?
they grew their own food
they gathered their food
they hunted for food
they bought food at the grocery store
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What was one change that marked the end of the Neolithic Era?
domesticating animals
growing crops
living in settlements
using metal tools
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long periods of freezing weather when most of earth was covered with huge sheets of ice
Ice Age
Neolithic Era
Old Stone Age
Paleolithic Era
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What can we learn from cave art?
what the people valued
all of these choices
which animals were hunted
what life was like
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What was one change that marked the end of the Paleolithic Era?
hunting animals
moving from place to place
gathering berries
agriculture
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Two of the animals that were hunted during the paleolithic era were:
quail and lizards
mammoths and reindeer
cats and dogs
moose and ducks
13
Life improved from the Old Stone Age to the New Stone Age by doing which of the following?
all choices
by growing crops
by domesticating animals
by living in one area
14
earliest ancestors of humans
hominids
prehistory
neanderthals
homo sapiens
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How did animals change from the Paleolithic to Neolithic Era?
Animals became extinct and then migrated.
They migrated to cooler areas, forcing people to move.
Animals were very large then got smaller.
Animals were hunted, then domesticated.
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What is most likely a negative effect of domesticated animals on humans?
domesticated animals meant settlements
animals made wool and furs more available
animals near humans caused new diseases
domesticated animals required more time
17
What was one change that marked the end of the Ice Age?
warming temperature
big sheets of ice covered the earth
no more sleds
all glaciers are gone
18
Which describes how stone tools changed over time?
stones were only hand-held tools <br>
traded for metal tools<br>
choppers then scrapers, knives, and saws
hammers then became jewelry
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end of Stone Age-lasted from about 10,000 to about 5,000 years ago in Egypt/Southwest Asia
Ice Age
Paleolithic Era
Modern Era
Neolithic Era
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What was one difference between hunter-gatherer and agricultural societies?
Agricultural societies led to democracy.
Hunter-gatherers had greater populations.
Agricultural societies had more animal types.
Hunters were nomads/agricultural people settled
21
What types of tools did humans use in the Old Stone Age/Paleolithic Era?
wooden
all of the choices
bone
stone
22
to train animals or plants to be useful to people
paleolithic
domesticate
agriculture
tools
23
How did communities change from the Old Stone Age to the New Stone Age?
followed animals for food then began crops
from moving around to staying in one area
all of the choices
people went from hunting to agriculture
24
Scientists believe that life began on which continent?
Antarctica
United States
Australia
Africa
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What did people first use for clothes?
shells
leaves
animal skin
grass
