Unit Assessment Review: The Stone Age

How does geography help us learn about the past?

• It helps us learn about the places, climates, and physical features poeple had to work with and live in.

• It helps us to understand the different jobs people had.

• It helps us to read ancient texts and documents.

• It helps us to know what people looked like in ancient times.

____ refers to the overall consistent weather and temperature patterns of a given place.

• Archaeology

• Geology

• Climate

• Theology

We consider Otzi to be a ______ because his body was preserved and kept fresh by ice! Not by someone preserving his body on purpose.

• Neolithic nomad

• natural mummy

• Stone Age gatherer

• Paleolithic priest

When we observe, we state facts about an object using our five senses. Which of the following is an observation about the picture you see?

• It could be a knife.

• There is a gray and brown piece tied together with something.

• Maybe it was used for hunting.

• I think its really, really old.

During the Paleolithic Era, early humans were ____ because they traveled from place to place in search of food and resources.

• archaeologists

• farmers

• nomads

• mummies

The Neolithic Era is a Greek term meaning____.

• The Old Stone Age

• The New Stone Age

• Prehistoric period

• The Land Before TIme

Paleolithic or Neolithic? Hunted and gathered for food.

• Paleolithic Era

• Neolithic Era

Sometimes archaeologists need to ____ artifacts, or dig them out of the ground.

• excavate

• irrigate

• preserve

• alleviate

During the Paleolithic Era, people survived mainly by collecting and killing their own food. For this reason, we refer to them as_______.

• collectors and hunters

• hunter-gatherers

• finders and keepers

• collectors and trappers

Paleolithic or Neolithic? Experienced an increase in population and more jobs due to food surpluses!

• Paleolithic Era

• Neolithic Era