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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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What was one change that marked the end of the Paleolithic Era?
gathering berries
moving from place to place
hunting animals
agriculture
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Life improved from the Old Stone Age to the New Stone Age by doing which of the following?
by domesticating animals
by growing crops
by living in one area
all choices
3
What can we learn from cave art?
which animals were hunted
what the people valued
all of these choices
what life was like
4
long periods of freezing weather when most of earth was covered with huge sheets of ice
Neolithic Era
Old Stone Age
Paleolithic Era
Ice Age
5
What did people first use for clothes?
shells
leaves
grass
animal skin
6
Two of the animals that were hunted during the paleolithic era were:
cats and dogs
mammoths and reindeer
quail and lizards
moose and ducks
7
What was one change that marked the end of the Neolithic Era?
domesticating animals
using metal tools
growing crops
living in settlements
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Which describes how stone tools changed over time?
traded for metal tools<br>
choppers then scrapers, knives, and saws
stones were only hand-held tools <br>
hammers then became jewelry
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to train animals or plants to be useful to people
domesticate
paleolithic
tools
agriculture
10
What types of tools did humans use in the Old Stone Age/Paleolithic Era?
bone
wooden
stone
all of the choices
11
What is most likely a negative effect of domesticated animals on humans?
domesticated animals required more time
animals made wool and furs more available
animals near humans caused new diseases
domesticated animals meant settlements
12
What was one change that marked the end of the Ice Age?
all glaciers are gone
warming temperature
big sheets of ice covered the earth
no more sleds
13
end of Stone Age-lasted from about 10,000 to about 5,000 years ago in Egypt/Southwest Asia
Ice Age
Modern Era
Paleolithic Era
Neolithic Era
14
Scientists believe that life began on which continent?
Africa
Australia
United States
Antarctica
15
What inventions/ideas/discoveries during this period in history still impact your life today?
people worked in groups
communicating through art
all of the choices
development of agriculture
16
How did animals change from the Paleolithic to Neolithic Era?
They migrated to cooler areas, forcing people to move.
Animals were very large then got smaller.
Animals were hunted, then domesticated.
Animals became extinct and then migrated.
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How did people adapt to their environment?
by hunting and gathering food
by agriculture
all of the answers
by developing fire
18
Which statement correctly describes early hunter-gatherer societies?
They usually lived together in large cities.
They relied on farming for their food.
They moved based on animals they hunted.
They traveled with large surpluses of food.
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How did communities change from the Old Stone Age to the New Stone Age?
followed animals for food then began crops
people went from hunting to agriculture
from moving around to staying in one area
all of the choices
20
The shift from food-gathering to food-producing occurred in which era?
Neolithic Era
Ice Age
Paleolithic Era
Old Stone Age
21
earliest ancestors of humans
prehistory
neanderthals
hominids
homo sapiens
22
time before there was a written record of history
Ice Age
prehistory
ancestor
paleolithic era
23
What was true about New Stone Age people that was different from Old Stone Age people?
they hunted for food
they grew their own food
they gathered their food
they bought food at the grocery store
24
First era or the Old Stone Age that lasted from earliest humans to about 10,000 years ago.
Paleolithic Era
Ice Age
Jurassic 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.
Hunters were nomads/agricultural people settled
Agricultural societies had more animal types.
