Unit 2: Early Humans & Prehistory Vocabulary Quiz

What term describes people who move from place to place rather than settling in one area?

• Foragers
• Archaeologists
• Nomads
• Domesticators

True or False: The “old stone age” was during the Neolithic period.

• True
• False

What do we call a person who studies human history through the excavation of sites and artifacts?

• Archaeologist
• Genealogist
• Anthropologist

True or False: The Bronze Age is the period in human history when people began to make and use silver.

• True
• False

What term describes the process of taming wild animals for human use?

• Foraging
• Semi-nomadic lifestyle
• Ice age survival
• Domestication

Which of the following best describes a "forager"?

• Someone who builds permanent settlements
• A person who studies ancient artifacts
• An individual who searches for wild food sources
• A metalworker from the Bronze Age

What is the term for a prolonged period of reduced temperature and increased glaciation on Earth?

• Mesolithic period
• Ice age
• Bronze Age

True or False: Semi-nomadic is the practicing seasonal migration, while maintaining a base at which crops are grown

• True
• False

True or False: Stone age people brought food from each other.

• True

• False

The New Stone Age- Agricultural revolution, turning point of foraging to producing their own food, permanent settlements (villages, towns), new tools

• Mesolithic Period

• Neolithic Period

  
  

• Paleolithic Period