Begins with "P"
the period of human history before written records were developed.
What is Prehistory?
a cultivated plant that is grown as food, especially a grain, fruit, or vegetable.
What is a crop?
refers to a visual representation of a sequence of events, or to a period of time.
What is a timeline?
the preserved remains of an organism or evidence of its behavior that has been replaced by minerals or impressions in rock.
What is a fossil?
a condition that causes people to leave a place, or migrate away from it.
What is a Push Factor?
the kinds of food that a person, animal, or community habitually eats.
What is a diet?
a geological period when the Earth's surface and atmosphere are colder for a long time, which results in the expansion of glaciers and ice sheets
What is an ice age?
an object made by humans, such as a tool, art, or clothing, that can be used to learn about a culture.
What is an artifact?
a positive attribute or condition that attracts people to move to a new location.
What is a Pull Factor?
is the process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use.
What is domestication?
a long period of geologic time that lasts hundreds of millions of years.
What is an era?
a physical material that has value to humans and is used for economic and social development (food, water, shelter).
What are resoures?
the movement of people from one place to another, either permanently or for a short period of time.
What is migration?
a way of life and a land use system that involves raising domesticated animals on open grasslands, or rangelands, for food and other products.
What is Pastoralism?
the artificial application of water to land for agricultural purposes, using man-made systems to supplement rainfall.
What is irrigation?
a period in human history that is characterized by the transition from hunting and gathering to farming and domestication of animals.
What is Neolithic?
the art and science of cultivating the soil, growing crops, and raising livestock.
What is agriculture?
a lifestyle where people move from place to place, rather than staying in one area for a long time.
What is nomadic?
a prehistoric cultural stage that refers to the time when humans began using stone tools.
What is Paleolithic?
is the act of growing something or improving its growth, especially crops.
What is cultivation?
the determination of the age or date of organic matter from the relative proportions of the carbon isotopes carbon-12 and carbon-14 that it contains.
What is Carbon-Dating?
invention or creating something new.
What is innovation?
An alcoholic beverage that is kept in and served from a barrel or tank rather than from a bottle or can. Ancient peoples learned that they would not get sick from drinks that had fermented and turned alcoholic if drank in moderation.
What is a draft?