Vocabulary
Map Skills
Cave Paintings
Caves
Social Scientists
100
a man made object: clothing, tools, weapons or coins
What is an artifact?
100
the imaginary line separating the northern and southern hemispere
What is the equator?
100
The way an artist may have signed their cave painting
What are handprints?
100
before written history
What is prehistoric?
100
Where did people live? How did they use their environment to survive?
What are questions a geographer would ask to learn about early humans?
200
a relative that lived a long time ago
What is an ancestor?
200
the continent that is the smallest
What is Australia?
200
The decoration on an important hunting tool
What was the top of a spear thrower?
200
rock-hard minerals, grindstone, and engraving tool
What are tools early humans might have used to paint cave paintings?
200
record keepers of the past; studies written records
Who are historians?
300
An expert who studies the past by examining objects that people left behind
Who is an archaeologists?
300
continent that lies to the northeast of Africa?
What is Asia?
300
had carved lines showing details such as animals faces, coat markings, and fringe of fur below their powerful necks
What are clay sculptures?
300
Lascaux, France
What is a place where drawings were found deep inside a cave?
300
What happened in the past?
What is a question a historian will ask?
400
an expert who studies and records the past
Who is a historian?
400
ocean to the west of Africa
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
400
evidence showing that children participated in ceremonies
What are foot-prints of young people?
400
scaffolding
What are planks raised above the floor to reach higher places?
400
scholars who study human society
What are social scientists?
500
studies the natural features of earth - water, landforms, plants and animals; also studies human features (towns, roads, bridges and dams)
Who is a geographer?
500
Imaginary line that separates the Earth into the eastern and western hemispheres
What is the Prime Meridian?
500
when ancient paintings are found in caves, what question is the hardest to answer
Why did people paint in caves?
500
rope, lamps for burning animal fat, and tools
What are artifacts found in caves?
500
a problem social scientists studying prehistoric times face
What is a lack of evidence or artifacts?
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