Vocab Practice: Unit 1 Origins of Civilization

What term describes the time before humans invented writing?

• Prehistory

• History

• Anthropology

• Culture

What are preserved remains of an ancient human, animal, or plant called?

• Artifact

• Fossil

• Culture

• Geology

Who studies the physical materials of the Earth such as soil or rock?

• Archaeologist

• Geologist

• Anthropologist

• Hunter-gatherer

What is an object made by a human being called?

• Fossil

• Artifact

• Culture

• Prehistory

What term describes a person who lives by hunting animals and gathering plants?

• Geologist

• Archaeologist

• Hunter-gatherer

• Anthropologist

What is the term for the movement of people from one place to another?

• Environment

• Adapt

• Migration

• Populate

What does "Populate" mean?

• To become an inhabitant of a place

• Change the growth of plants

• Movement of people

• Surroundings

What does "Domesticate" mean?

• Change the growth of plants or behavior of animals in ways that are useful to human beings

• A complete change in ways of thinking

• Movement of people

• Surroundings

What does the term "surplus" mean?

• Shortage

• Extra (food)

• Deficit

• Scarcity

What is a "civilization"?

• A small village

• A complex society with cities or well-organized government and special job skills

• A nomadic tribe

• A farming community