Name That Term
What term means moving from one place to another?
Migration
Monte Verde is in Chile. On which continent is it located?
South America
What blocked hunters in Alaska from immediately traveling farther south, according to the reading?
Huge ice sheets
Which era is associated with the shift toward farming: Paleolithic or Neolithic?
Neolithic
What kept Ötzi’s body preserved for thousands of years?
Ice
What do we call someone who hunts wild animals and gathers wild plants for food?
Hunter-gatherer
Why did many early hunter-gatherers move from place to place?
To find animals and wild plants for food.
Which migration theory suggests people traveled along the Pacific coast, possibly using boats?
Pacific Coastal Route theory
What region in Southwest Asia was one of the earliest places where farming communities developed?
Fertile Crescent
What metal was used for Ötzi’s axe blade?
Copper
What term means growing crops and raising animals for food?
Agriculture
According to the land bridge theory, people traveled from Siberia in Asia to what place in North America?
Alaska
Which people were once widely believed to represent the earliest settlement of the Americas?
The Clovis people
How could river flooding help farmers?
It deposited silt that enriched the soil.
In what mountain range was Ötzi discovered?
The Alps
Stone shaped into a tool that is found in the ground thousands of years later?
An artifact.
What change in ocean levels exposed the Bering Land Bridge?
Ocean levels fell, uncovering land.
Why did the discoveries at Monte Verde challenge the Clovis-first explanation?
They suggested people lived in the Americas before the Clovis people.
A village grows extra food, allowing some people to become potters. Name BOTH vocabulary terms this illustrates.
Surplus and specialization
What discovery in 2001 showed that someone had shot Ötzi?
An arrowhead in his left shoulder
What process changes plants and animals over generations for human use?
Domestication
Describe how early humans typically traveled during the Stone Age: their group size and their purpose.
In small groups, moving to hunt and gather food.
The reading describes ancient human remains on an island off California. What might that suggest about how people traveled?
They may have traveled by water, using boats.
Give one reason farming encouraged permanent settlements and one disadvantage of crowded settlements.
People stayed near fields and herds; disease could spread more easily.
Does finding a bow and arrows with Ötzi prove that hunting was his job? Explain.
No. They suggest he could have hunted, but do not establish his occupation.