EARLY HUMANS

Question 1

Write a sentence using the word “nomad” correctly.

Answer 1

Get creative.

Question 2

What was the question that Lucy’s skeleton helped scientists answer? What is the correct answer to that question?

Answer 2

Question: Did big brains or walking upright come first?
Answer: Walking Upright

Question 3

What are 2 things that cave paintings reveal to us about early humans?

Answer 3

1) Cave paintings can reveal their beliefs or what religion they were apart of.
2) Cave paintings can reveal their prey, and what tools they used to assassinate their prey.

Question 4

True or False: Permanent settlements were built when people began to raise crops and animals.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

True or False: Early humans hunted animals and gathered wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts and may even scavenged to survive.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

True or False: Early humans learned how to play softball.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

True or False: Stone tools were items made by early humans to hunt and kill animals and make fire.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

The period of time before written history is known as

Answer 8

Prehistory

Question 9

Which of the following is not a reason people migrated during the stone age?
A. They followed herds of animals.
B. They searched for new communities to trade with.
C. They wanted to find warmer climates.
D. They were looking for new sources of food.

Answer 9

B

Question 10

Historians believe that people first lived in….

Answer 10

Africa

Question 11

___ are a group of people who wander and follow herds of animals which they hunt

Answer 11

Cave people

Question 12

Paleolithic people’s tools were made of what material?

Answer 12

Stone

Question 13

Lucy is a member of which species of early humans?

Answer 13

Australopithecus afarensis

Question 14

Lucy’s skeleton is famous for being

Answer 14

one of the oldest human ancestor fossils ever found

Question 15

It is believed that Otzi died from

Answer 15

Ah arrow shot to the shoulder

Question 16

Which of the following was not something scientists were able to learn about otzi?
He had bread and deer meat in his intestines.
He had tattoos.
He had 2 sons and a wife.
He had a heart disease.

Answer 16

He had 2 sons and a wife.

Question 17

What are two reasons that humans migrated out of Africa?

Answer 17

Climate change and they were in need of food.

Question 18

A time before written records:

Answer 18

Prehistory

Question 19

A species that has an erect posture and can walk upright.

Answer 19

Hominid.

Question 20

Humans that hunted for animals and found plants.

Answer 20

Hunter-Gathers

Question 21

A person that moves place to place with no permanent home.

Answer 21

Nomand

Question 22

What do archeological records tell us about humans in the past?

Answer 22

Archeological records tell us about early human’s lifestyle, their communication, tools, beliefs, and their prey in the past.

Question 23

What were some uses stone tools had during the stone Age?

Answer 23

Some uses were to hunt and butcher prey and to weave clothing.

Question 24

True or False: Early agriculture societies can be best described as nomadic.

Answer 24

False

Question 25

Which of the following describes why cave art is important?
it was how hunter-gathers communicated
Cave art had no importance
writing their history down took too long
they used advanced techniques to create the cave art

Answer 25

it was how hunter-gathers communicated