Cave Men
Environment
Vocabulary
Mesopotamia
Map Skills
100
What continent did the first humans live in?
Africa
100
What kind of environment was the Fertile Crescent?
Lots of water from rivers, good soil for farming.
100
Define Hunter-Gatherer
People who hunt for animals and gather food in the wild, and not farm or raise their own food
100
Where did the first permanent human settlement form?
Mesopotamia!
100
What are three parts of a map?
The Title, the Key/Legend, the Compass, etc
200
How did cave men get their food and stuff they needed to live?
They hunted wild animals and picked wild plants they could find.
200
What kind of climate did the early humans probably experience around the time they migrated?
An Ice Age
200
What is a Nomad?
When someone/a group moves around a lot, with no permanent home
200
What are the names of the rivers that Mesopotamia were next to?
The Tigris and the Euphrates rivers
200
What imaginary line divides earth into North and Southern Hemispheres?
The equator
300
Why did the cave men move around a lot?
They were following their food source, herds of animals that moved often.
300
What kind of natural disaster, or weather event (NOT CLIMATE) made the early humans want to migrate?
A severe drought
300
Define Migration
When a group of people or animals move from one place to another
300
What modern country is where the Mesopotamia was long ago?
the country Iraq
300
What imaginary line divides earth into a Eastern and Western Hemisphere?
The Prime Meridian
400
What is the picture below an example of? What does it show about how cave men lived?
These are Cave Drawings, and it showed how dependent they were on the animals in their environment.
400
How did cave men adapt to their environment when they migrated?
They saw that the land had more food so they decided to try staying in one place instead of traveling
400
What is surplus?
Extra, leftovers, more than you need, etc.
400
What is this stone tablet an example of?
Mesopotamian written language, cuneiform
400
What is the Capital of Australia?
Canberra
500
When did early humans begin migrating out of Africa? (How many years ago?)
60,000 to 90,000 years ago
500
What happened to the Fertile Crescent? Is it still around today?
No, both of the rivers dried up and the fertile crescent is how a total desert :(
500
What is agriculture?
Anything that relates to growing crops and raising animals like cows and sheep.
500
How did Mesopotamian tools for farming get better than the hunting tools of the cave men?
They figured out how to make tools out of metal and not stone like the cave men.
500
Which is more accurate, a flat map or a globe? Why?
Globe because it is a 3D model of earth instead of a flat drawing that can't show everything where it is exactly/in the right size.