Pangea
What is Pangea?
A supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.
Name one thing that archeologists do
-Date and analyze objects
-Dig at sites for trace of human life
Paleolithic man/ woman mostly ate...
A secondary source is...
A document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere.
A timeline is...
A graphic representation of the passage of time as a line
Who is Alfred Wegner?
A geophysicist who discovered continental drift
Modern humans arrived on the scene around HOW MANY years ago?
60,000 Years Ago
A revolution occurred for Neolithic man/ woman when they learned to _____________ plants and animals
Domesticate
Name all cardinal directions
North, South, East, West
Timelines are usually separated into...
intervals
What is the theory of continental drift?
The Earth’s crust sit upon a layer called the mantle. Earth’s crust is constantly moving and drifting over this mantle, affected by various movements.
Our closest primate ancestors are... (That we SHARE a common ancestor with)
Chimpanzees
Paleolithic man could only __________ and _________ fire
Start and control
Name all four ordinal directions
Northwest, northeast, southeast, southwest
A.D. stands for this Latin word
Anno Domini (In the year of the Lord)
How did Wegner discover continental drift?
He found similarities in geological and plant/ animal fossils on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, supporting his theory
Creatures that walk on two legs are called...
Bi-pedals/ bi-pedalism
Human communication/ language started out with....
Making noises
Line 0 for Latitude is named...
The equator
If you are a freshman in high school, you've likely been alive for this "division of time"
A decade and a half
What two continents look like they would fit the most easily together?
South America and Africa
Humans left Africa because it was too ________ and ________
Hot and dry
Neolithic man and woman advanced society by creating government. Evidence of this can be seen with... (One answer will sufffice)
Religious leaders, militaries, kings and queens, and property rights
The square area on a map with information about symbols, distance, cities is called a ________
Legend
These groupings don’t always have set boundaries