Migration
This is when people move from one place to another to live.
Migration
These people got their food by hunting animals and gathering wild plants.
Hunter gatherers
This is the growing of crops and raising of animals for food.
What is agriculture?
This type of settlement is one where people stay in one location for a long period of time.
What is a permanent settlement?
Early civilizations often developed near these because they provided important resources.
What are rivers?
Changes in this could make an area too cold or difficult for early humans to live in.
Climate
Hunter-gatherers generally had to do this to find food and resources.
What is move from place to place?
Agriculture gave people a more dependable source of this.
What is food?
Early humans began modifying their environment by doing this to trees and bushes to create shelters or fires.
What is clearing them?
Rivers provided this resource that farmers could use to grow crops.
What is water?
Early humans might migrate when plants and animals they depended on for food became unavailable because of this.
Lack of food
This word describes people who move from place to place rather than living in one location.
What is nomadic?
Growing extra food beyond what people immediately needed created this.
What is a surplus?
This type of soil helped early humans grow crops near rivers.
What is fertile soil?
Rivers could provide food, transportation, and this farming benefit.
What is irrigation?
Give two reasons early humans migrated to different areas.
What are climate change, lack of food, dangerous predators, or the need for shelter?
Why were hunter-gatherers generally unable to live in one permanent location?
What is they had to move to find food and resources?
Why did agriculture lead to a large increase in human population?
What is agriculture provided more food, allowing more people to survive and families to have more children?
Give one way population growth could negatively affect the environment.
What is farmers could overwork the land or use up resources?
Give three ways rivers helped early civilizations.
What are transportation, irrigation/water for farming, and food?
Explain how climate change could cause early humans to move to a new location.
What is climate change could make an area too cold or change the availability of plants and animals, causing people to search for a better place to live?
Compare a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle with a permanent agricultural lifestyle.
What is hunter-gatherers moved from place to place to find food, while agricultural communities could stay in one place and grow food?
Name two ways agriculture changed early human life.
What are permanent settlements, increased population, domestication of animals, and growing crops?
Explain how an increase in population could lead to both more farming and environmental problems.
What is more people needed more food, so more crops were grown, but farming could overwork the land and use up resources?
Explain why river valleys were good places for early humans to establish permanent settlements.
What is river valleys provided water, fertile soil for farming, food, and transportation?