Grab Bag
Paleolithic Age
Neolithic Age
Physical Characteristics
Grab Bag
100

This explains the colors and symbols that are found on a map.

What is a map key?

100

This is how paleolithic humans obtained food.

What is hunting and gathering?

100

The concept of owning things such as land, livestock, and tools.

What is private property?

100

The weather conditions of a region, in general, or over a long period.

What is climate?

100

Reasons that attract people to another area.

What are pull factors?

200

The process of relocating to a new region.

What is migration?

200

The cultivation of crops and domestication of animals. This was also the most important discovery of Neolithic humans.

What is agriculture?

200

Any significant accumulation of water, generally on a Earth’s surface.

What are bodies of water or water features?

200

Time before written history.

What is prehistory?

300

Imaginary horizontal (lay flat) lines that circle the Earth on a globe or map.

What is latitude?

300

This is an extra amount of food, caused by Neolithic farming.

What is a food surplus?

300

Materials or substances found in nature and are useful to humans.

What are natural resources?

300

This is a shortage of a supply.

What is scarcity?

400

Lifestyle involving moving from place to place in search of resources.

What is nomadic?

400

This lifestyle involves remaining/living in one area.

What is sedentary?

400

The large community of plants and animals that occupies a distinct region.

What is biome?

500

Large-bodied mammals, that is, any mammal weighing more than 100 pounds.

What are megafauna?

500

This was the most important discovery and human characteristic of paleolithic humans.

What is language?

500

This reliance on the skills or jobs of others for survival was caused by Neolithic farming.

What is job specialization?