Chapter 1-3 Test Review

Question 1

Which statement about Homo habilis describes capability that helped their group survive?

Accepted Answer

They knew how to make tools.

Question 2

A prehistoric object is one that comes from a time

Accepted Answer

before history was written

Question 3

Who made carvings, cave paintings, and musical instruments?

Accepted Answer

Homo sapiens sapiens

Question 4

If you were a Neolithic Trader,what would most likely happen as you traveled and traded?

Accepted Answer

You would find out how other groups lived.

Question 5

the later part of the Stone Age called the New Stone Age

Accepted Answer

Neolithic Age

Question 6

Archaeologists found decorated pottery and polished stones. Neolithic people

Accepted Answer

cared about beauty.

Question 7

an early ancestor of humans

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hominid

Question 8

People who study the past are most like

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detectives

Question 9

The Neolithic Age ended about 3000 B.C.E., with the discovery of how to

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make metal tools

Question 10

Why did Neolithic people trade?

Accepted Answer

to get the resources they lacked

Question 11

Homo Habilis means...

Accepted Answer

"Handy Man"

Question 12

an expert who studies the past by examining objects that people have left behind

Accepted Answer

archaeologist

Question 13

to move from one geographic region to another

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migrate

Question 14

What change began the Neolithic Age, about 8000 B.C.E.?

Accepted Answer

farming

Question 15

Homo erectus was the first hominid to use...

Accepted Answer

fire

Question 16

What trait made Homo erectus well suited for traveling?

Accepted Answer

long, strong leg bones

Question 17

a scientist that studies early human development and culture

Accepted Answer

anthropologist

Question 18

How did the people of the Paleolithic Age get their food?

Accepted Answer

hunting and gathering

Question 19

something that can be used to fulfill a need

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resource

Question 20

Where did the earliest human live?

Accepted Answer

Africa

Question 21

Why did people in the Neolithic Age live in larger groups, compared with earlier times?

Accepted Answer

They could grow enough food to support more people.

Question 22

Which of these activities would an archaeologist most likely do?

Accepted Answer

examine objects

Question 23

Large brains heloped Homo Sapiens neanderthalsis survive, giving them the ability to

Accepted Answer

design better tools

Question 24

How did dividing up the work help communities produce more to meet their needs?

Accepted Answer

Individuals developed a variety of skills

Question 25

What is the best title for these words: spinner, weaver, basket maker, toolmaker

Accepted Answer

Specialization in Catal Hoyuk

Question 26

What important discovery did four teenagers make at Lascaux, France, in 1940?

Accepted Answer

a cave filled with paintings of animals

Question 27

an arc-shaped region in Southwest Asia, with rich soil

Accepted Answer

Fertile Crescent

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