This explains the colors and symbols that are found on a map.
What is a map key?
This is how paleolithic humans obtained food.
What is hunting and gathering?
The concept of owning things such as land, livestock, and tools.
What is private property?
The weather conditions of a region, in general, or over a long period.
What is climate?
Reasons that attract people to another area.
What are pull factors?
The process of relocating to a new region.
What is migration?
The cultivation of crops and domestication of animals. This was also the most important discovery of Neolithic humans.
What is agriculture?
Any significant accumulation of water, generally on a Earth’s surface.
What are bodies of water or water features?
Time before written history.
What is prehistory?
Imaginary horizontal (lay flat) lines that circle the Earth on a globe or map.
What is latitude?
This is an extra amount of food, caused by Neolithic farming.
What is a food surplus?
Materials or substances found in nature and are useful to humans.
What are natural resources?
This is a shortage of a supply.
What is scarcity?
Lifestyle involving moving from place to place in search of resources.
What is nomadic?
This lifestyle involves remaining/living in one area.
What is sedentary?
The large community of plants and animals that occupies a distinct region.
What is biome?
Large-bodied mammals, that is, any mammal weighing more than 100 pounds.
What are megafauna?
This was the most important discovery and human characteristic of paleolithic humans.
What is language?
This reliance on the skills or jobs of others for survival was caused by Neolithic farming.
What is job specialization?