Social Studies 1

Question 1

Australopithecus afarensis Meaning

Answer 1

Means - Southern Ape

Question 2

What were Australopithecus afarensis capabilities?

Answer 2

They walked on two feet, they used their hands to

1) carry things
2) for defense.

Question 3

What was homo habilis’s name mean?

Answer 3

“Handy man”

Question 4

Where did homo habilis live?

Answer 4

Africa

Question 5

What where the homo habilis’s capabilities?

Answer 5

1) of their capabilities were that they could make tools

Question 6

What does homo erectus’s name mean?

Answer 6

Their name means “upright man”

Question 7

What Does homo sapien Neanderthal mean?

Answer 7

Wise man and Neanderthal man

Question 8

Where did homo Sapien Neanderthal live?

Answer 8

Africa, the near east, and Europe, and asia

Question 9

What where homo sapian neandercolensis capabilities

Answer 9

One of their capabilities were making tools like spears and knives. They also cared for their community’s people like if one person gets sick the other one cares about he or she

Question 10

What is homo sapien sapiens scientific name?

Answer 10

Homo sapien sapien

Question 11

What does homo sapian sapians name mean?

Answer 11

Early modern human and doubty wise man

Question 12

Where did homo sapian sapians live?

Answer 12

They lived in all continents

Question 13

What were homo sapian sapians capabilities?

Answer 13

Their capabilities were to improve their toolmaking such as spears and bow and arrows. Their Tools Evolved.

Question 14

What were homo sapians able to do the other hominids could not?

Answer 14

They could dream, draw pictures, and communicate

Question 15

What Is a archeologists?

Answer 15

It is a social scientist who study the past by examining objects and the remains people left behind.

Question 16

What are historians?

Answer 16

They are social scientists who study records from the past. Thy study writing and documents that people left behind.

Question 17

What are geographers?

Answer 17

They are social scientists that study natural features of the earth such as water, landforms, plants, and animals, they also look at human made features. Thy also create maps of what they have learned.

Question 18

What Is prehistory?

Answer 18

It is a period of time before people began to write.

Question 19

What is archaeology?

Answer 19

It is the study of things that earlier people left behind.

Question 20

What are artifacts?

Answer 20

They are objects made by people, example art, clothing, and pottery, tools and weapons.

Question 21

What is a fossil?

Answer 21

Remains, such as bones, of once living humans and animals, also preserved footprints. They can also tell us what the hominids looked like.

Question 22

What is a Theory?

Answer 22

An accepted explanation.

Question 23

What does excavate mean?

Answer 23

To dig up the scientists divide the sites into areas to keep track were the evidence come from.

Question 24

What is hominid?

Answer 24

It is a human and species with human like species.

Question 25

What is the Paleolithic era?

Answer 25

It is the Stone Age and began 2.5 million years ago and ended 10000 year ago

Question 26

What does migrate mean?

Answer 26

To move from one place to another.

Question 27

What are the continents?

Answer 27

North America, South America, Africa,Asia,Europe,antartica, Australia,

Question 28

What are the oceans?

Answer 28

Artic,Indian,Atlantic,pacific,and southern ocean.

Question 29

Who are scholars who study human society?

Answer 29

Social scientists

Question 30

When are historians most interested in the past? (In years)

Answer 30

Few thousand years when people leave written records

Question 31

How do we learn about the past?

Answer 31

Through scientific study