Stone Age Vocabulary

Question 1

prehistory

Answer 1

time period before written record

Question 2

migrate

Answer 2

moving to a new place

Question 3

ancestor

Answer 3

relative who lived in the past

Question 4

Ice Age

Answer 4

long periods of freezing weather with huge ice sheets

Question 5

agriculture

Answer 5

farming, using plants & animals for resources

Question 6

Mesolithic Era

Answer 6

time when people migrated, adapted & used new tools during the Stone Age

Question 7

tools

Answer 7

used to cut, chop, hunt by hand

Question 8

society

Answer 8

group of people who live together, share cultures & help each other

Question 9

hominid

Answer 9

early ancestors of human discovered by fossils

Question 10

land bridge

Answer 10

narrow strip of land used to cross continents

Question 11

megaliths

Answer 11

huge stones used as monuments usually for religion

Question 12

hunter-gatherer

Answer 12

lifestyle of early humans to move with the seasons & supplies

Question 13

Paleolithic Era

Answer 13

early Stone Age when people moved & drew cave art

Question 14

domestication

Answer 14

taming animals & choosing the best plants

Question 15

Neolithic Era

Answer 15

part of Stone Age when settlements were set up and Agricultural Revolution began