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Prehistory and Early Humans Test - M

Quiz by Kelli Gilchrist

Grade 6
Social Studies
North Carolina Standard Course of Study

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  • Q1

    Early relatives to modern day humans

    hominids

    Society

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  • Q2

    Movement from one location to another, in order to establish a new permanent settlement

    Nomads

    migration

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  • Q3

    Time period before written  records

    Prehistory

    Hominids

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  • Q4

    Period of time where humans invented and primarily used stone tools.

    Ice Ages

    Stone Ages

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  • Q5

    Group of people living within a community

    Society

    nomads

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  • Q6

    "Wise man" and the group including modern-day humans, which is believed to be the first hominid to develop language.

    Homo Sapiens

    Neandethals

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  • Q7

    Large scale shift from hunting/gathering to farming, which allowed humans to produce large quantities of food.

    Agricultural Revolution

    Ice Age

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  • Q8

    Time periods with consistently freezing temperatures throughout the world.

    Ice Ages

    Stone Ages

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  • Q9

    Study of humans and their development, including human culture and human behavior.

    Society

    Anthropology

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  • Q10

    Planting foods and breeding animals that are useful for humans

    Domestication

    Migration

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  • Q11

    People without a permanent home, either individually or as a community, who move from place to place.

    Homo Sapiens

    Nomads

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  • Q12

    People who hunt animals and gather wild plants to acquire food.

    Hominids

    hunter/gatherers

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  • Q13

    Why is it difficult for historians to know exact facts and dates about prehistory?

    The Ice Age destroyed all of the artifacts left behind by early hominids.

    There are no written records of what happened during this time.

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  • Q14

    Which group of people studies prehistory based upon what earlier people left behind?

    linguists

    archaeologists

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  • Q15

    The oldest human fossils ever discovered indicate humans originally lived on what continent?

    Africa

    Asia

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  • Q16

    List the appearance of the major hominids in chronological order.

    Homo Habilis, Australopithecus, Neanderthals, Homo Erectus, Homo Sapiens

    Australopithecus, Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, Neanderthals, Homo Sapiens

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  • Q17

    Which types of tools did early humans create during prehistory?

    Hand axes made of stone

    Wheelbarrows made of bronze and wood.

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  • Q18

    Which statement about early human migration is FALSE?

    People migrated because they wanted to find new lands and build their own countries.

    People migrated because there were long periods of drought and little rainfall.

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  • Q19

    How did some early humans successfully migrate from Asia to North America?

    They walked across a land bridge after glaciers lowered sea levels.

    They swam the short distance between the two countries.

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  • Q20

    Which of the following did the early humans domesticate during prehistory?

    Shelters

    Pigs

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