Prehistory

Question 1

Plant or animal remains that have been preserved from an earlier time

Answer 1

Fossil

Question 2

The time before written records

Answer 2

Prehistory

Question 3

The science of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock

Answer 3

Agriculture

Question 4

To adapt wild plant for human use; to tame wild animals and breed them for human use

Answer 4

Domesticate

Question 5

The oldest era of the stone age

Answer 5

Paleolithic

Question 6

A time when glaciers covered most of the land

Answer 6

Ice Age

Question 7

The newest era of the stone age

Answer 7

Neolithic

Question 8

The use of advanced methods to solve a problem; an ability gained by the practical use of knowledge

Answer 8

Technology

Question 9

An object made by people

Answer 9

Artifact

Question 10

The study of objects (fossils/artifacts) to learn about past human life

Answer 10

Archaeology

Question 11

People who move from place to place as a group to find food

Answer 11

Nomads

Question 12

The act of training for a particular job

Answer 12

Specialization

Question 13

The period in ancient human culture when people began to make bronze

Answer 13

Bronze Age

Question 14

Where were the oldest remains of man found?

Answer 14

Africa

Question 15

How do scientists know that humans in Africa were the oldest?

Answer 15

Carbon-14 dating

Question 16

What is Australopithecus?

Answer 16

Two legged creatures walking upright

Question 17

Homo Habilis was the first to make _____ tools.

Answer 17

Stone

Question 18

Homo Erectus was the first to create ____.

Answer 18

Fire

Question 19

Homo erectus was first to create a ______.

Answer 19

Language