Social Studies 7 1.1 Hunters and Gatherers

Who were the earliest humans?

• Hunter gatherers
• Farmers
• Cobblers
• Bakers

Why did hunter gatherers migrate?

• To make better tools
• To explore the river valleys
• To find food
• To find better shelter

Once people learned how to raise plants and animals they no longer had to:

• Hunt
• Fish
• Swim
• Migrate

Where do archaeologists believe the first humans originated?

• Europe
• Africa
• North America
• Asia

Which of the following was NOT a way that hunter-gatherers adapted to their environment?

• use of fire
• simple tools
• hunt and make clothes
• make settlements

Migrate means

• to stay in one place
• to hunt animals
• to farm
• to move from place to place

A __________ is a thick mountain of ice that forms over many years.

• ice age

• mammouth

• glacier

• Beringia

The "land bridge" first used by people to come to America was called __________.

• Bering Strait

• Beringia

• continent

• migration

An ____________ is a man or woman made item that allow scientists to study what the world was like before written history.

• continent

• fossil

• artifact

• archaeologist

What happens to the sea level during an Ice Age?

• It goes up.

• It goes down.

• It remains the same.

• It does not change.