Social Studies

Question 1

The first species to make tools is from the genus (category) we call Homo (Human)

Answer 1

Homo habilis or Handy person

Question 2

Where does it live the homo habilis

Answer 2

It Most likely in Africa

Question 3

When does live the homo habilis

Answer 3

1.5 to 2.4 million years ago

Question 4

When does homo habilis exist, what era?

Answer 4

The Paleolithic era, or the Old Stone age

Question 5

What characteristic of Homo Habilis?

Answer 5

The brains of Homo Habilis were about half the size of presente day human brains

Question 6

He adapted or made changes that helped it survive, to live in regions that earlies species had found too harsh

Answer 6

The Homo habilis

Question 7

What does Paleolithic
mean?

Answer 7

It comes from the English word paleo, meaning “of prehistoric times,” and the Greek word lithos, meaning “stone.”

Question 8

It comes from the English word paleo, meaning “of prehistoric times,” and the Greek word lithos, meaning “stone.”

Answer 8

Paleolithic

Question 9

During this time, many different kinds of tools were made from stone.

Answer 9

Paleolithic

Question 10

While it may have lived as early as 2.5
million years ago, _______ was at
its peak about 1.9 million years ago.

Answer 10

Homo Erectus

Question 11

What its the mean Homo erectus?

Answer 11

“upright person,”

Question 12

Where its lives Homo Erectus?

Answer 12

He lived in many regions of Africa and Eurasia, including China, Vietnam, Indonesia, and India.

Question 13

He lived in many regions of Africa and Eurasia, including China, Vietnam, Indonesia, and India.

Answer 13

Homo Erectus

Question 14

What are his (Homo erectus) characteristics?

Answer 14

It was probably a lot like the homo habilis but
taller and thinner, with a bigger brain.
They could make better tools and weapons.

Question 15

When appeared the Homo Sapiens?

Answer 15

The Homo sapiens first cameabout 200,000 years ago. It looked like a
modern human.

Question 16

Who is the Homo Sapiens?

Answer 16

Homo sapiens was the first modern human. The progress it made led to civilization as we know it.

Question 17

Was the first modern human. The progress it made led to civilization as we know it.

Answer 17

Homo sapiens

Question 18

Where migrated the Homo Sapiens?

Answer 18

of Africa to other continents.

Question 19

What its the principal characteristhic of Homo Sapiens?

Answer 19

Used fire, and made similar stone tools. They changed from scavengers into hunter-gatherers, communities became more common

Question 20

He walked upright, used fire, and made
similar stone tools. They changed from scavengers into hunter-gatherers, communities became more common

Answer 20

Homo Sapiens

Question 21

His brain was lighter, with smaller muscles, was more adaptable and brain size kept growing from generation to generation. It could learn from experience and adapt better to change.

Answer 21

Homo Sapiens

Question 22

What helped that Homo Sapiens adapted more rapidly?

Answer 22

Technologies – tools, clothing, fire, and other innovations – helped adjust to new environments more rapidly.

Question 23

What its the Archeology?

Answer 23

It comes from the Greek
word for the study of ancient things.

Question 24

What study a Archeologists?

Answer 24

They study early humans, but they also examine and learn from history.

Question 25

How does an archeologist Work?

Answer 25

Archeologists often divide a site into a grid with squares that are just a foot or two wide. A team of assistants slowly sifts through every handful of dirt in each square.

Question 26

Its a technique that determines when a person or animal lived.

Answer 26

Carbon Dated

Question 27

What analysis tells scientists where an animal or an early person’s parents and ancestors came from?

Answer 27

DNA Analysis

Question 28

Scientists study which edible plants and animals grew nearby. They show if the plants that were eaten in the past are the same plants that grow today.

Answer 28

Food remains

Question 29

The _____help scientists estimate a species’ intelligence. Researchers can compare the size data with other information and see how brain size affected survival.

Answer 29

Cranial (head) size measurements

Question 30

Who was nomad?

Answer 30

People who travel for place to place.

Question 31

How nomads began to develop its own society or way of living together?

Answer 31

Established patterns of migrations.

Question 32

Before the Paleolithic era, language probably consisted mostly of _______________ and _______________

Answer 32

Gestures and sounds.

Question 33

Humans find their way to every continent during _____________

Answer 33

The last age.

Question 34

How could people spread to all continents?

Answer 34

Because glaciers froze over much dropping a large amount of the ocean water. As a result see level dropped, and land bridges that had once been underwater were revealed,

Question 35

Where did humans travel from?

Answer 35

They travel from Africa to Asia and then from Asia to America.

Question 36

Were used to sew hides or soft bark into clothing materials?

Answer 36

Bone needles

Question 37

Burins were chisel - like tools made of ________ used to carve or engrave

Answer 37

sharp-edged flakes of stone

Question 38

How make the Hand axes?

Answer 38

were made of flint or flaky stone.

Question 39

For what the use the hand axes?

Answer 39

They were used to cut meat, throw at pray , chop and bark.

Question 40

What its the awls?

Answer 40

Were long pointed spikes wood piercing wood or hides.

Question 41

The ____ were made of stone or bone and mounted on sticks. They were used to hunt and fish an as weapons.

Answer 41

Spearheads

Question 42

The________ were sharp-edge prepare animals to be eaten, to clean hides, and to make bark.

Answer 42

Scrapers

Question 43

Major change happened when people realized they could grow a lot of food in one place. His name is

Answer 43

Agricultural revolution:

Question 44

It probably started in ____________ an area that includes southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa.

Answer 44

The Middle East,

Question 45

The animals could be shepherded, with the help of dogs, over many miles of grazing grounds. This is called

Answer 45

“Pastoral nomadism.”

Question 46

People moved between camps. They started staying in permanent camps called settlements. The settlements grew into ________________

Answer 46

Villages and towns.