They dig up objects from long ago and study them to find out more about humans who lived a long time ago.
100
Why were hunter-gatherers nomads?
They were nomads because they had to follow their food - the animals.
100
What is agriculture?
Agriculture is farming; planting and caring for crops then harvesting the crops to eat.
100
How did people know which plants to grow?
They watched the way plants grew and planted the ones that provided the most food.
100
When settlements got bigger, what were they called?
They were called villages.
200
What are fossils?
They are the remains of bones, footprints, people, animals that have hardened over time.
200
Why did hunter-gatherers have to adapt?
They had to adapt to survive in the changing environment.
200
When the Ice Age ended, how did warm weather make life easier?
The warmer weather brought more rain, which helped different plants and animals to grow. This meant there was more food available.
200
What is the word that means raising animals to help people?
Domestication
200
Name the seven continents.
North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Australia, Antartica, Europe
300
What are artifacts?
They are objects that people made or used in the past.
300
Name three tools that hunter-gatherers made and used.
needles, spears, chisels, axes,
300
When did people begin to farm?
When they started living in permanent settlements?
300
Where did people do most of their farming?
They did most of their farming near rivers.
300
Name two problems that happened when the world's population began to grow.
1. People needed more land and food which sometimes led to conflicts between people.
2. People living close together allowed diseases to spread more quickly and easily.
400
What is it called when people study fossils and artifacts?
Archaeology
400
What changes happened when the Ice Age ended?
The ice melted causing the seas to become higher so there were more places to fish. People began to make permanent settlements near rivers or oceans. The wooly mammoth became extinct so people had to learn to catch more fish and hunt other animals.
400
Why did hunter-gatherers stop being nomads?
They stopped being nomads because they were able to find places where getting food was easier and more certain; They didn't have to follow animals for food.
400
How did people store food?
They stored food in clay pots.
400
What does "surplus" mean?
Use it in a sentence.
"Surplus" means more than enough or extra.
When people began farming, they had a surplus of food.
500
Where did the first humans live?
They lived in Africa.
500
What was the Stone Age?
It was the time period when hunter-gatherers lived and made their tools from stone.
500
As people got better at farming, what were they able to do?
They were able to have a surplus of food that they could store to use later.
500
What is slash-and-burn agriculture?
Slash-and-burn agriculture is when people cut down all the trees and bushes then burn them. The ashes make the soil fertile.
500
Name 2 differences between hunter-gatherers and early man who lived in a village.
Hunter-gatherers did not farm for their food.
Hunter-gatherers did not domesticate animals.