Old/New Stone Age Review 2022

Which of these is the best example of a "surplus"?

• Extra food to be able to trade with neighboring communities
• The amount of food that hunter-gatherers could gather in a few days
• The building of houses in the New Stone Age
• The making of stone tools in the Old Stone Age

Over thousands of years, people gradually discovered a new way of life. They discovered how to grow crops from wild seeds. They also discovered how to ________________ animals that could be raised for food, wool, milk, and other products. They had learned to farm! Which word best fits in the blank?

• specialize
• domesticate
• surplus
• settle

Agriculture is....

• farming.
• taming animals.
• hunting for food.
• specific jobs for people

The use of skills or things to make life easier or solve a problem is known as_________

• technology
• specialization
• historian
• domestication

Which of these is true about the Paleolithic Age?

• Most people farmed for their food.
• The tools they had were made from stone.
• They were less healthy than people in the Neolithic Age.
• They lived in large groups.

_________came about because of ______________ and means that people have special or specific jobs that they do.

• Domestication, agriculture
• Religion, domestication
• Specialization, agriculture
• Specialization, domestication

"Agriculture developed at different times and in different places. Over the years, people have domesticated many different plants and animals. Domestication of some species has been abandoned. Following the last Ice Age, people began to cultivate rice, wheat, potatoes, and corn. However, herding of reindeer declined because of the climate change." Using the excerpt, what is one possible reason that people stopped using some domesticated species?

• It took too long to domesticate them.
• Agriculture didn't happen fast enough.
• They were too busy growing crops like rice, wheat, and potatoes.
• Climate change affected the population of some animals.

What is NOT a type of technology that was used in the Old Stone Age?

• Fire-building
• Agriculture
• Hunting
• Stone tools

What does it mean to be a hunter-gatherer?

• You are nomadic.
• You have domesticated animals.
• You hunt for the grocery store and gather your food from it.
• You farm for your food.

The major change that triggered the transition from the Old Stone Age to the New Stone Age was the development of ___________

• Domestication
• Agriculture
• Religion
• Specialization