Chapter Two Study Guide

Question 0

Elephant like creature

Answer 0

Mammoth

Question 1

A relative who lived in the past

Answer 1

Ancestor

Question 2

Move to new places

Answer 2

Migrate

Question 3

Farming

Answer 3

Agriculture

Question 4

A monument in England, megalith

Answer 4

Stonehenge

Question 5

The process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans

Answer 5

Domestication

Question 6

The times that the world began to experience long periods of freezing weather

Answer 6

Ice Ages

Question 7

Archaeologist who made important discoveries about prehistory, found some of the earliest ancestors

Answer 7

Mary Leakey

Question 8

To divide among a group of people

Answer 8

Distribute

Question 9

One of the earliest ancestors of humans, name means “southern ape”

Answer 9

Australopithecus

Question 10

The time before there was writing

Answer 10

Prehistory

Question 11

Huge stones used as monuments

Answer 11

Megaliths

Question 12

A strip of land connecting two continents

Answer 12

Land Bridge

Question 13

True or False? Early people believed in gods such as the thunder god.

Answer 13

True

Question 14

True or False? The first human made shelters, called pit houses, were pits in the ground with roofs or branches and leaves.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

True or False? Early people learned about fire from rubbing two rocks together.

Answer 15

False, sticks

Question 16

True or False? One way prehistoric people adapted to their environments was to create tools to process food.

Answer 16

True

Question 17

True or False? During the Mesolithic Era people settled in new lands.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

To study prehistory, historians rely on the work of archaeologists and _________.

Answer 18

Anthropologists

Question 19

Land bridges allowed for __________ Age people to move around the world.

Answer 19

Stone

Question 20

Simple tools like ___________ were used for about 2 million years.

Answer 20

Choppers

Question 21

By 9000 BC, people lived all over the continents except _____________.

Answer 21

Antarctica

Question 22

Using large animals greatly improved the ability of people to ________.

Answer 22

Farm